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  • VA Partnering with Local Community to End Homelessness

    DAYTON, OHIO – Dayton VA Medical Center announces the establishment of Lyon’s Place II, a low-income senior housing unit for all Veterans and their families, with priority placement for Veterans. St. Mary’s Development Corporation will operate Lyon’s Place II, on the Dayton VAMC’s campus.

    “This project represents a decade of planning with VA, Dayton community and our selected partner St. Mary’s and will help support President Obama’s and VA Secretary Shinseki’s promise to end homelessness by 2015. In 2006, the Dayton VA initiated its partnership with St. Mary’s to work towards establishing permanent supportive senior housing for Veterans. This coordinated approach between VA and St. Mary’s will reduce, eliminate and prevent homelessness among the Veteran population, which is critically needed especially for our troops from all eras. The “Lyon’s Place II – Housing Project” is one way to assist Veterans who are seniors and find themselves homeless.” Stated Glenn Costie, Dayton VA Medical Center Director.

    The St. Mary’s Development Corporation received a $ 4.6 million grant from the Office of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to construct a building on the campus of the VA Medical Center that will house sixty-seven (67) units of high quality, energy efficient, safe, secure and affordable housing for independent seniors, including Veterans and their families, and age 62 and older.

    The project will consist of a single newly built structure 46,000 gross square footage (GSF) situated on a 6.0-acre parcel on the grounds of the Dayton VA Medical Center, Dayton, Ohio. This project will provide numerous benefits to the community, City of Dayton and Montgomery County, and the Greater Miami Valley. This project will provide housing that the VA cannot provide and adds an essential component to the continuum of caring for our Veterans.

    Collaborating with agencies such as St. Mary’s Development has provided that critical link to services, residential case management, and crisis intervention that is needed to address homelessness.
    Read the full press release



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