Ensuring Veteran Retention and Positive Attrition

7.  Ensuring Veteran Retention and Positive Attrition

"The first version of this document focuses mainly on activities that help streamline and expedite the HUD VASH leasing process. In future versions, an equal if not stronger focus should also be placed on retention and making sure that Veterans, if and when they exit the program, do so for positive reasons. We will not be able to realize our goal of ending Veterans homelessness by 2015 if the Veterans we serve do not achieve and sustain housing stability. Therefore, to expand this section, HUD will continue researching and soliciting contributions on retention and helping Veterans become more self sufficient. 

A preliminary practice that should be highlighted under this section is the linking of HUD VASH with HUD‟s Family Self- Sufficiency program."

REMARK:

I can't speak for everyone's experience with HUD VASH but this is not the experience I've encountered through the program. The 'Housing Specialist' have done everything conceivable, primarily being incompetent and indifference.  I could have never conceived the level of damage can or will be done under the guise of a program created to solve homelessness.  From both sides; HUD and VASH, there has been a willful intent to direct a process of attrition on veterans with the knowledge that there's thousand more dire idiots to utilize.