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Jewish War Veterans help in getting the Detroit
Veterans Center off the ground.
LONNY GOLDSMITH
Staff Writer
are war veterans, but veterans com-
prise 35 percent of the homeless pop-
ulation.
Many of them are Vietnam veter-
ans, but Tobi Geibig, the executive
director of the Michigan Veterans
Foundation, which operates the cen-
ter, said he has also seen homeless
Desert Storm and World War II veter-
ans. He said the Detroit area has the
largest population of homeless veter-
ans in the country.
The center has a capacity of 104,
and 60 have checked into it.
"We get them off the streets, restore
their pride and educate them when we
need to," Geibig said.
p until a few months ago,
Howard Shorr, a Jewish Air
Force captain during the
Vietnam War, had been liv-
ing in his car for a year — not by
choice.
He arrived in Detroit 25 years ago
by way of Dayton after a decorated
Air Force career, during which he
received the distinguished flying cross.
Schorr had worked as an accountant,
insurance salesman and real estate
agent until 10 years ago when he
became disabled with degenerative
bone and joint disease
and post traumatic stress
disorder from the war.
"Being disabled, I
couldn't get enough
money scraped together
to cover all the living
requirements," he said. "I
lived on the margins,
even when I had money."
But life took a radical
turn for the better with
the opening of the
Detroit Veterans Center,
a housing center that
helps homeless veterans
Vietnam veteran Howard Shorr: off the streets.
get off the street and
trains them for a more
"Some of the clients buy a house,
stable and productive life.
some reunite with family and some
Now Shorr, 5'8, has access to med-
end up in assisted living facilities," he
ical facilities that he didn't know exist-
said. "We would consider any of those
ed and has a bed to sleep in. "Being
successful outcomes."
here has already helped me and I'm
Grants were received from the city of
making progress," he said.
Detroit, the state of Michigan and the
The center, on Park Street at Tem-
federal government, as well as several
ple in Detroit's Cass Corridor, is the
local foundations, including the Taub-
brainchild of Eli Katz, former state
man Foundation. Geibig estimates that
commander of the Jewish War Veter-
the complex will cost over $3 million.
ans who died last year. He began try-
JWV National Commander Jack
ing to build a housing center for
Berman
came to town for the center's
homeless veterans eight years ago.
opening ceremony. According to
Twelve veterans service organiza-
Geibig, no other organization's nation-
tions have donated time and money to
al commander has been to town to see
the project; one of them is the nation-
the building.
al Jewish War Veterans. "We're
"He was so impressed, he wants to
involved because they served their
do something like this across the
country," said Jack Schwartz, who is
country," said Detroit JWV Comman-
in charge of poor and homeless issues
der Robert Feldman. "People don't
for the JWV.
often think of Jews as being homeless,
The federal Veteran's Administra-
but it happens." ❑
tion says 7.6 percent of the population
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