11 era is unemployed, said former Home of the Brave Foundation board Chairwoman Linda Boone, raising the risk of them becoming homeless. For safety reasons, the shelter’s doors are always locked.Ībout one in 20 homeless vets is a woman, according to federal statistics on homelessness, and Delaware officials estimate there are about 30 women veterans without stable places to live statewide.Īlso, one in five female veterans in the post-Sept. Finan said one of the shelter’s current residents became homeless after fleeing an abuser at home, a common factor in homelessness. One day last week, two of the women made a meal in the kitchen, declining to be interviewed. Any honorably discharged veteran is eligible to apply. The shelter has room for a total of eight women and children at a time. One woman, in her 40s, served in the Army National Guard another, in her 50s, was discharged from the Marines the third, in her 60s, served in the Air Force. Three women are now staying in the shelter one with her young son. “It was already ready to go and had the variance from the city,” Finan said. Home of the Brave is leasing the seven-bedroom, five-bathroom home. Owned by the God’s Way to Recovery organization, it had been a transitional home for homeless men, Finan said.
Where they ended up is a home that had already served as a place of respite. “We just thought, this is a losing battle. “That was a big stop-and-think moment,” said Jessica Finan, the shelter’s executive director. But resistance from neighbors, and the county Board of Adjustment’s decision to grant a land-use exemption for only two years, prompted the nonprofit to sell that house and look elsewhere for a women’s shelter site. The group bought a foreclosed home on land outside of town, on Griffith Lake Drive, and sought to renovate it to serve as a shelter in 2013.
The Home of the Brave II building, on Causey Avenue steps from the downtown shopping district, is the nonprofit’s second try at setting up a women-only veterans shelter. MILFORD – Making its second attempt stick, Home of the Brave, the first shelter for homeless female veterans and their children in state, has opened a home in downtown Milford.
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