PHOTO: Breaking Ground on Veterans Center in West Somerville
The veterans center will have 22 units of temporary housing and seven units of permanent housing for homeless and low-income veterans.
Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone, Rep. Michael Capuano, state officials and executives from Volunteers of America attended a groundbreaking ceremony Friday for a new veterans housing development in West Somerville. Called the Massachusetts Bay Veterans Center, and located at 1323 Broadway, the new facility will provide 22 transitional and seven permanent housing units for homeless veterans. Speaking at the groundbreaking—71 years to the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor—Capuano talked about the need to help veterans in need. "The concept of homeless veterans is, to me, anathema … it should not exist," he said. "The county was built on the back of veterans," Capuano said, adding that it was a "national disgrace" the country has "turned …
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12:57 am on Thursday, December 20, 2012
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