While Catholic Charities of Shiawassee and Genesee Counties held a ribbon cutting for its much-anticipated Sacred Heart Veteran Village (SHVV) today, CEO Katie Baxter was quick to note that the transitional housing development for veterans experiencing homelessness is not yet complete.
“I will say that we are not as far along with this project as we wanted to be at this time,” Baxter said to the event’s large audience, gathered in the multipurpose room of the development’s Veterans Resource Center on Oct. 20.
“We’ve had lots of different kinds of unforeseen delays,” she continued. “But yet, here we are in this beautiful building that the Lurvey team built for us, and we are gathered as a group of good-willed individuals and organizations that believe that a veteran, after serving our country, should not be homeless.”…