Helping Homeless Veterans in Wisconsin May Present Many Challenges

Tuesday, October 28th, 2025 -- 12:00 PM

(Wisconsin Radio Network) Helping homeless veterans in Wisconsin presents many challenges.

According to the Wisconsin Radio Network, Quentin Hatfield, Executive Director of the nonprofit Wisconsin Veterans Network, says the homeless situation has improved slightly with veterans, but is nowhere near eliminated.

He says groups serving our veterans are seeing an increasing number of cases and the cases are more complex than in the past. He says vets service groups are collaborating more broadly across the state to resolve issues as quickly as possible.

As rents increase around Wisconsin, they’re assisting more veterans who have young children, and more elderly vets on fixed incomes. He cited a “worst case scenario” where WVA assisted a homeless 87-year-old veteran earlier this year, calling that “a red alert” to the plight of older vets.

WVA recently received a $25,000 grant from the state Department of Veterans Affairs to continue serving veterans, one of 16 grants to veterans’ nonprofits totaling $550,000.

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