Whether your tour will be for months, years or end with retirement, Housing & Neighborhood Preservation can provide or connect you to a variety of resources that can help you with housing issues.
Of course, the first place you may want to look is military housing for each service branch. For information on military housing, please contact your branch housing office directly:
Army Housing
The links on the left list services provided by the City of Virginia Beach by our department. We offer assistance with homeownership, housing improvement, rental housing and related issues.
Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH)
The case managers at the local Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMC) are responsible for referring eligible homeless veterans to the PHAs. Any interested homeless veteran should contact their local VAMC directly. The Veterans Administration (VA) office will verify the veteran’s homeless status. The PHA is responsible for income and citizenship verifications. The case manager may compile the documents, but the PHA has the final say reading their appropriateness and section 8 eligibility.
To participate in the HUD VASH program an eligible homeless family (which can be one person) would be referred from the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Hampton to the PHA. The PHA will determine if a family is income eligible and screen out lifetime sex-offender registrants.
If a family no longer needs case management as determined by the VAMC, the family is still eligible for rental assistance under the HCV program. In cases where case management is no longer needed, the PHA could use one of its own vouchers, if available, to continue assisting the family and free up a voucher for another HUD-VASH eligible family. If a regular voucher is not available, the family would continue to use the HUD-VASH voucher. If a HUD-VASH voucher is switched to an HCV program, the family is not subject to the PHA’s waiting list. When the veteran dies the voucher will remain with the family.
For further information please call: 757-722-9961 or visit the HUD-VASH page.
Are you a Veteran experiencing homelessness or at risk of becoming homeless?
Call 1 (877) 424-3838
National Homeless Call Center
Available 24 Hours Per Day
VA Medical Facility Number
Ask for the Homeless Program
Hampton, VA - 1-866-544-9961
Web-Based Resources:
Veterans Crisis Line 1 (800) 273-8255
Our neighboring cities and some non-profit organizations provide housing resources and information as well:
Non-Profit Housing Organizations
There are also state-wide organizations that have housing help: