Veterans for Veterans helps homeless veterans find apartments
Jan 11, 2014
The organization Veterans for Veterans is helping homeless veterans find apartments in Downtown Amarillo, but those apartments need major work before tenants could move in. For more news from the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles and Eastern New Mexico, visit www.ConnectAmarillo.com.
Volunteers makeover downtown apartments for veterans
by Marissa Lucero
Posted: 01.11.2014
AMARILLO, TEXAS -- Once a field of run-down apartments, is now becoming a complex of homes for disabled veterans in Amarillo.
Vietnam Veteran Alvin Coffee's landlord evicted him from his apartment just weeks before Christmas.
"I was never getting ahead so me and her boyfriend got into it and she just waited for the opportune moment to tell me she wanted me to leave." Coffee said.
Coffee then met Veterans for Veterans President Eric Smith who already had finding Coffee and other homeless veterans a place to call home on his list of things to do.
The organization helps veterans of all branches apply and obtain their benefits, but Smith decided to take the organization's services to the next level one hammer and paint brush at a time.
Smith contacted Laura Mara who purchased 12 apartments on the corner of Seventh and South Jackson. She agreed to hold nine of them for veterans, but those nine need major work from plumbing to electrical.
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