VA Announces Record $1.17 Billion in Grants to Help Homeless and At-Risk Veterans
WASHINGTON – RealEstateRama – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) today announced a record $1.17 billion in grants to 680 organizations nationwide to assist Veterans who are homeless or at risk of losing their housing. The funding will be distributed in fiscal year 2027. It follows a year in which VA housed 51,936 homeless Veterans in fiscal year 2025, the highest number in seven years.
“Under President Trump, VA is making historic progress getting our most vulnerable Veterans off the streets and back on the path to self-sufficiency,” said VA Secretary Doug Collins. “These grants underscore our commitment to expanding critical services that prevent Veteran homelessness, connecting those who have worn the uniform to permanent housing and providing the resources necessary for long?term stability.”
Where the money goes
Supportive Services for Veteran Families: $855 million
Awarded through the Supportive Services for Veteran Families program, these one-year grants begin Oct. 1, 2026. Grantees will provide case management and supportive services to:
- Prevent Veterans and their families from losing their homes.
- Help them find new, more suitable housing.
- Rapidly re-house those who are homeless and might otherwise remain so.
Grant and Per Diem: $318 million
Awarded through the Grant and Per Diem program, these three-year grants also begin Oct. 1, 2026. They are designed to:
- Fund transitional housing with supportive services, as well as service centers.
- Support transition-in-place housing, where Veterans stay in their current unit while receiving services that help them move toward stable, permanent housing.
- Provide specialized housing for women Veterans and for Veterans who are chronically mentally ill, frail, elderly, terminally ill, or caring for minor dependents.
View the full list of awardees.
Other recent VA accomplishments
The grants are the latest in a series of VA achievements during the second Trump Administration. VA has:
- Enrolled more than 250,000 new Veterans in VA healthcare in 2026.
- Opened 41 new healthcare facilities since January 2025.
- Cut the backlog of Veterans waiting for benefits by more than 70%, after it grew 24% during the Biden Administration.
- Reduced average disability claims processing time by 46%.
- Completed a record 82,083,918 direct care appointments in FY 2025, up 4.1% from FY 2024.
- Completed a record 59,989,662 community care appointments in FY 2025, up 12% from FY 2024.
- Offered more than 3.2 million appointments outside normal operating hours.
- Launched a Partial Claims Program to help Veterans facing financial hardship avoid foreclosure. It is one of several ways VA helps Veterans keep their homes: in FY 2025 alone, VA worked with mortgage servicers to help 173,000 Veterans avoid foreclosure.
