This time last year, Bruce Mitchell was on the cusp of homelessness. Now, he says he couldn’t be happier.
The 57-year-old Paterson native missed a rent payment in June 2014 for his apartment, and when the next month’s payment was due, he didn’t think he could make that one, either.
“I was getting ready to be evicted from my apartment complex,” said Mitchell, a U.S. Army vet who was working as a substitute teacher in the Passaic County Public School system, but only gets paid when he works. “I was almost at a point where I would be homeless. That’s a scary thought.”
Then, Community Hope — a nonprofit organization that helps homeless veterans and those combating mental illness find a place to live or recover — came to his rescue and helped to pay his rent.
Mitchell is among the 1,350 veterans in New Jersey and Pennsylvania who have received similar help in the past four years from the agency’s Supportive Services for Veteran Families program. The program has a focus on homelessness prevention, said Julia Ahmet, Community Hope chief development officer.
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