Facilities assisting homeless Wisconsin veterans in Chippewa Falls and Green Bay have closed and — as of Tuesday — their funding officially ran out.
The Veterans Housing and Recovery Program locations provided transitional housing, job training and substance abuse counseling in the northern Wisconsin cities with a goal of helping veterans become stable enough to find permanent housing.
The program was expected to run a deficit of around $3 million through 2027, according to the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau. During state budget negotiations, the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs, or WDVA, told state lawmakers it would need to close the facilities in Green Bay and Chippewa Falls without an infusion of state cash…