Veteran Research and Communications Toolkit

Affordable housing developers and service providers have made great strides in decreasing veteran homelessness and creating the homes and structures military veterans need to live healthy, productive lives as civilians. This toolkit provides housing developers, managers, social service providers, advocates and others with effective ways of communicating about veterans' affordable housing needs and solutions with three audiences: community members, policy makers and veterans themselves.

For a case study of challenges in communicating about veterans' supportive housing in the siting and pre-development process, see "Don't call them homeless veterans: Surprising insights on messaging from the front lines of NIMBY," in the Spring 2015 issue of Shelterforce.

NHC's Veterans' Housing Communications Toolkit was produced with the generous support of The Home Depot Foundation. All opinions or conclusions expressed are the author's alone.