Homeless vets offered housing

HALIFAX - Homeless veterans in Halifax will get access to short-term housing in a pilot project described as the first of its kind in Atlantic Canada. The two agencies involved - Veterans Emergency Transition Services Canada and The Salvation Army Centre of Hope in Halifax - say two short-term accessible housing units are being provided to veterans of the Armed Forces or the RCMP.

The groups say the veterans will also get communitybased supports to secure a long-term home.

They say the project launched one week ago and already a veteran has been placed in one unit.