The Atlanta Veterans Village provides long-term housing complete with comprehensive, on-site services tailored to address the unique emotional, financial, and physical needs of homeless veterans. The goal is to help them rebuild their lives and permanently break the cycle of homelessness.
The Atlanta Veterans Village marks the first homeless veteran housing facility supported by The Home Depot Foundation, in partnership with the Tunnel to Towers Foundation. The Foundation contributed $500,000 toward the facility's renovation and organized more than 100 Team Depot volunteers, The Home Depot’s associate volunteer team, to complete the facility. Volunteers painted a mural, assembled patio furniture, built a pergola, landscaped garden beds, and prepared bathrooms for residents. Additionally, The Home Depot donated essential household items, furnishing all 88 residential units with bedding, shower curtains, and bathmats.
This grand opening reflects a strong, ongoing partnership. Since 2011, The Home Depot Foundation has invested over $24 million in the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, helping to build more than 100 free, specially adapted smart homes for severely injured veterans.
“I am happy that I could attend both the groundbreaking and ribbon-cutting,” Senator Kay Kirkpatrick says. “This project was a long time coming, but it is a great resource for Cobb County.”
Atlanta is one of several sites involved in the Homeless Veteran Program. Today, the program has provided housing and access to vital support services for more than 10,000veterans.
About the Tunnel to Towers Foundation
The Tunnel to Towers Foundation is dedicated to ending veteran homelessness nationwide. This initiative honors the dignity and sacrifice of those who served by ensuring that no veteran is left without a place to call home in the nation they defended. The foundation provides mortgage-free homes to families of fallen first responders and Gold Star families with young children. The foundation also builds specially adapted smart homes for catastrophically injured veterans and first responders. Visit t2t.org to learn more and get involved.