SAN ANTONIO – Retired U.S. Army Col. Sergio Dickerson said some veterans in the Bexar County area have ended up living on the streets due to challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Many of these veterans, for example, were unemployed, and so couldn’t pay their apartments or homes and then found themselves on the streets for the very first time,” Dickerson said.
Dickerson is with the American GI Forum National Veterans Outreach Program, a local organization that provides housing, mental health and employment services to veterans.
“We had a situation during the pandemic that we had a lot of veterans seek our services,” Dickerson said.