OMAHA — A dozen advocates for veterans and veterans’ services met on Veterans Day weekend with a Nebraska congressman and a U.S. senator from Kansas, discussing how to boost and replicate a local model for housing homeless veterans.

U.S. Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., and U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., headlined a Friday discussion on how local nonprofit and government agencies address affordable housing needs and the mental health services crunch. They also heard more help is needed.

The roundtable discussion took place at Victory Apartments, a veterans housing facility in South Omaha. Tom York, property manager at the apartments complex, described how veterans can benefit from having access to one another and from wraparound services, including VA social services and on-site mental health care.

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