PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Sharon Brown on Improving Support for Homeless Veterans
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3 min
Sharon Brown passionately advocates for immediate and comprehensive support for homeless veterans, arguing against long shelter stays and proposing direct housing placement, business ownership opportunities, and retroactive compensation for time spent homeless. She emphasizes treating veterans with respect and providing them with freedom and resources to live comfortably.
- Calls for immediate housing placement for homeless veterans, suggesting a 30-day maximum wait time
- Proposes giving veterans opportunities to own businesses, including bodegas and stores
- Advocates for retroactive pay for the time veterans spent homeless, treating it as active duty
Sharon Brown
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Hello.
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My name is Sharon Brown.
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Remember Israel, defend Israel, release the hostages, let Yahweh's people go.
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Thank you.
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Okay.
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The veterans that are in the shelters, it should not be a two year wait or any kind of wait.
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It should have been, like, thirty days or something like that, whatever their mandate is already.
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But I don't think that the shelter system should be for people who have served the country.
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I think that homeless veterans from the street to a house, from the street to an apartment, we have the funds to put them in, shelters for two years.
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That means that we have sampled it.
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We figured out we have the money.
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So now when we see veterans that need apartments and houses, get them from where they are, go to an apartment complex, go to a computer, look up an apartment, get them into apartment ASAP, divert the funds.
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We've diverted funds before, and it hasn't been a problem.
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Divert the funds, put them directly into houses, get them their own businesses.
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They can also do the street vending and things like that, but they can also own bodegas and stores and different things like that.
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They are not mentally incapacitated.
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They have served this country.
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We need to treat them with respect.
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And the fact that they were able to take care of this country, that lets us know that they are fully capable.
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And even now, if we had called them to service, many of them might jump up and go back into service to defend this nation.
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And while the veterans were out on the streets homeless, I want them paid for service.
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I don't want them to be considered to have just been homeless.
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When they were out there, our country was safe because they were out there.
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They harassed them while they were out there.
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They harassed them while they were vending.
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Well, okay.
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Good for you.
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So that means they they dealt with warfare.
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They dealt with conflict.
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They were on duty.
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I want a bill or something passed that they get paid for the time they were homeless.
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If they were homeless for twenty years, we better get into our wallets.
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We're gonna pay them for that as if they were active duty.
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If they were homeless for ten years, the same thing.
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Two years.
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We need to pay them as if they served us when they were out on the street.
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And I want them again, I'm gonna reiterate, I want them to own property.
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They are free.
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They don't need to be in transitional homes and things like that.
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We need to pull off that stigma.
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Anything that they need services, let them go to it.
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Don't have any caps on their housing.
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Let them be free.
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Let them have car we need to purchase cars for them.
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We need to get them anything they want and do it on our dime.
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They almost can live free here on Earth in America.