Recommended reading: Today the Chronicle offered a great profile piece on Oskar Gonzalez-Yetzirah who works with homeless vets on Houston streets.
Houston Chronicle excerpt:
“It’s like stepping through a portal into another world,” says Oskar Gonzalez-Yetzirah, mingling with the men as he walks deeper and deeper into the park.“You a vet?” he asks.
It’s a question he and fellow outreach workers ask dozens of times a day. They work for United States Veterans Initiative, a nonprofit group trying to help as many as 3,500 homeless veterans in Houston and as many as 120,000 vets nationwide. The goal is to get veterans off the street, or pre-emptively, to stop their slide before they hit the pavement or the park.