“Two words that should never go together are ‘homeless’ and ‘veteran,’” said Jay Patrick, pastor of Liberation Church and president and chief executive officer of Liberation Veteran Services.

On Tuesday, Veterans Day, the nonprofit will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new Veterans Village: a 50-unit apartment complex and community space on Midlothian Turnpike that will offer short- to medium-term housing to U.S. military veterans facing homelessness.

Crews broke ground on the approximately $10 million facility in January and are set to complete it in the next few months. A grant from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs supplied roughly $2 million. The rest came from generous donors.

It’s freezing outside. And many of Richmond’s homeless don’t have a place to go.

In 2024, the

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