Homelessness Prevention for Veterans: Stop Homelessness BEFORE It Happens.

Homelessness does not begin the day a veteran sleeps in a shelter.
It starts much earlier, with a missed paycheck, a medical bill, a broken-down car, or a sudden rent increase that throws everything off balance.

This fundraiser focuses on that critical moment.
The goal is to step in before a veteran loses housing, so they never have to experience the trauma, danger, and shame of homelessness in the first place.

Effective homelessness prevention often means meeting very practical, very fixable needs, such as:
• Eviction prevention
• Rent gap payments
• Utility debt clearing

These simple interventions are both inexpensive and highly effective. A relatively small gift can close a rent gap, bring a delinquent account current, or stop an eviction filing in its tracks. Instead of paying for emergency shelter, repeated hospital visits, or long-term crisis care, your donation keeps a veteran stable in the home they already have.

Here is how your support helps in real life:
• A veteran who had to miss work for medical appointments falls one month behind on rent. A short-term rent payment prevents an eviction notice and keeps their family housed.
• A veteran’s disability check covers basic expenses, but a sudden winter heating bill pushes them over the edge. Paying off that utility debt stops the shutoff and keeps the home safe and livable.
• A veteran facing job loss is caught between feeding their family and paying rent. A one-time bridge payment buys them time to secure new employment without losing their housing.

Homelessness is expensive for communities and devastating for individuals. Prevention is the opposite. It is targeted, efficient, and humane. It respects the dignity of veterans who have already sacrificed so much and should not have to battle homelessness on top of everything else.

Your donation helps:
• Keep veterans and their families in their homes
• Stabilize households that are on the brink of eviction or utility shutoff
• Reduce the long-term costs and harms that come when someone falls into homelessness

Every dollar you give goes directly toward practical solutions that prevent homelessness before it starts. You are not just responding to a crisis after it happens. You are stopping that crisis from happening at all.

About Pawsitivity Service Dogs for Veterans

We train service dogs for disabled veterans, but our mission is larger than dogs. We support the well-being of veterans and their families in every practical way we can.