When hearing of the need of older military veterans for housing, former Green Beret and successful home builder Richard Simonian took up the challenge and now has 7,000 homesites in 40 manufactured housing communities across the western U. S. that openly caters to veterans. As lakecountrysun.com reports, John Stryker Meyer, author of a book about the Vietnam War and board member of a veterans assistance group, tells MHProNews, this is not a government program, “Just a guy making sure fellow veterans who need help with housing get it.”

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