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Apartment Building for Homeless Vets Opens in Detroit ANN ARBOR, MI (Michigan Radio) - It's estimated Detroit has more than three thousand homeless veterans, but some of them now have a place to call home.

Piquette Square opened this week in Detroit.

It's a $23 million, 150-unit apartment building for homeless veterans.

John Van Camp is CEO of the nonprofit Southwest Housing Solutions, which developed and built the facility.

He says it's not a shelter, not transitional - it's permanent housing - and more -- for veterans.

"Giving them a key to a quality apartment is not going to change their situation, that just changes their living," Van Camp says. "You've got to have a wraparound program where you're looking at job training, you're looking at education, you're looking at mental health services, you're looking at the social supports necessary."

Van Camp says residents pay 30 percent of their income, and if they have no income, they pay no rent.
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