This piece is sponsored by The First National Bank in Sioux Falls.
There were 32,882 homeless veterans reported in the U.S. in 2024, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
That number includes 42 percent of veterans who were unsheltered, 30 percent living in an emergency shelter and 28 percent living in transitional housing with organizations such as the Veterans Community Project of Sioux Falls.
“We are a transitional housing program for at-risk or homeless veterans,” said Kaelyn Giefer, director of development. “The goal is to get them back up on their feet, give them wraparound services, help them in all areas of their life and then transition them back out into the community to permanent housing.”…