SHARE VILLAGE Las Vegas, provides access to 24/7/365 emergency, transitional, assisted living and permanent housing residence for United States Veterans and families in need operated by the nonprofit organization SHARE, a 501 © 3 nonprofit organization has created and implemented a master plan to end homelessness and to serve as a replicable national model for long-term and sustainable housing solutions for vulnerable Veterans and families.

“It is impossible to alleviate or end homelessness and the lack of affordable housing without building and renovating homes,” said SHARE VILLAGE Founder Arnold Stalk PhD. across the nation, every city experiences homelessness for all people, and every city in both urban and rural parts of the USA has abandoned buildings, unused spaces, old and under performing motels or apartment buildings. Through determination, collaboration and hard work, our Veterans would be given clean, safe, functional places to live if the rest of the nation implemented what we are doing right here in Las Vegas. It is my goal to take our efforts and expand throughout the rest of the nation. There is no reason for the brave men and women who have fought for our country or families to sleep on the streets, live in vehicles, in parking lots in storm drains or in substandard slum dwellings.”

The four-step approach includes emergency housing, transitional housing, and permanent rental housing. It relies heavily on the collaboration between agencies in a city including organizations such as the VA, HUD, Salvation Army, Goodwill, The Red Cross, US Vets, Safe Nest, HELP/USA, HELP of Southern Nevada, Catholic Charities and the Veterans Administration.

The existing SHARE VILLAGE Las Vegas components of this master plan include:

• SHARE Village #2 (Permanent housing in addition to repurposed homes made from ocean shipping containers) 300 people per night.
• SHARE #4 (Permanent housing) 75 people per night.
• SHARE #5  (Women and family housing campus) 60 people per night.

The national model of connecting otherwise segmented private agencies and corporations to unite against Veteran homelessness has earned much success in Las Vegas and throughout Southern Nevada. Through the SHARE Village master plan template, other cities will be offered the tools, processes and information to coordinate, create and strategize a similar model in an effort to end Veterans homelessness for good across the USA.