The Well Magazine Fall/Winter 2015 | Page 17

Yvette Jones has housed more than 2,500 veterans in the last nine years. She also conducts housing workshops, seminars and classes like the housing and credit restoration fair for veterans she conducted in Chicago Heights, Illinois this summer. strongly about that. I feel that I am helping the poor and disenthem. My veterans tell me all the time, they deserve better. I franchised, the battered and abused, the single moms, the single believe they deserve better. dads, the homeless veterans. There really aren’t too many people Once I received an emergency call from the Veterans Adwho are helping them. Many people think that the homeless are ministration that a veteran was living in uninhabitable condihomeless because they want to be tions in Pem