What did Donald Trump claim about housing on 26 Aug 2024?
Donald Trump, Republican presidential nominee ·
Meanwhile, more than 41,000 homeless American veterans are living in squalor on our streets.
Fewer than that. The latest count found 35,574 homeless veterans, not more than 41,000, and fewer than half of them, 15,507, were unsheltered.
HUD's latest national count at the time, taken in January 2023, found 35,574 veterans experiencing homelessness, of whom 20,067 were in shelters and 15,507 were unsheltered (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2023 Annual Homeless Assessment Report, Part 1).
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- Speech to the National Guard Association of the United States general conference in Detroit, Michigan.
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