Report: 12 Percent Fewer Homeless Vets

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The number of homeless veterans in the United States dropped nearly 12 percent between January 2010 and January 2011, according to new data out from the Department of Veterans Affairs on Tuesday. 

The department said that 67,495 veterans were homeless in the United States on a single night in January 2011. A year before that, the tally was 76,329.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan said in a statement that the decline shows that the Obama administration is “headed in the right direction” in its aim to end veteran homelessness by 2015.

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