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Veterans Helping Veterans
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19th Annual Motorcycle Run
Join us for this year's 19th Annual Homeless Veterans Run on
Saturday July 19, 2025.
The event raises funds for the Albany Veterans Housing Coalition. $20 per person. Registration at 10:00am. Kickstands Up at 12:00pm. Starts at Spitzes Harley Davidson 1970 Central Ave Albany, and ends at the Chapter 8 Clubhouse 6437 Amsterdam Road Schenectady, NY 12302.
Food, music, and raffles following ride at the clubhouse
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Sgt. Henry Johnson Veterans House
Albany Housing Coalition’s $1,000 Charles Chandler Memorial College Scholarship for Albany High School Students.
Attention High School Seniors: Please consider applying for this scholarship.
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EveryDayWarriors Golf Tournament 2021
EveryDayWarriors started a relationship with Albany Housing Coalition Inc! They selected us to to receive almost 10K from a golf fundraiser at Fairways of Halfmoon! Also of note, Daniel Brunner hit a hole in one on hole #5!
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Team Building at Nordic Alliance
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Happy Holidays from the Albany Housing Coalition Family!
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Keys To Progress
Albany Housing Coalition was chosen this year as the veteran organization to be the recipient of beautiful Chevy Silverado which will be used to help stabilize low-income veterans and their families in the Capital Region and provide a continuum of affordable housing and supportive services, including employment and retention and access to health care.
Reducing Veteran Homelessness one Veteran at a time
Sustainable solutions to Veteran Homelessness. Serving homeless Veterans since 1993.
Between 2020 & 2022 there's been -11% decrease 33,136
American Veterans are
homeless nationally
8%
American Veterans have been
homeless for over 12 months
What can we do
to help you?
Help for Homeless & At-Risk Veterans
We are offering rapid-response assistance to Homeless Veterans and those at imminent risk of losing their housing. Reach us at (518) 465-5251.
Events at Albany Housing Coalition
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2023 Motorcycle Run Held for Homeless Veterans Awareness
Join us for this year's 17th Annual Homeless Veterans Run on Saturday July 15, 2023.
The event raises funds for the Albany Veterans Housing Coalition. $20 per person. Registration at 10:00am. Kickstands Up at 12:30pm. Starts at Spitzes Harley Davidson 1970 Central Ave Albany, and ends at the Chapter 8 Clubhouse 6437 Amsterdam Road Schenectady, NY 12302.
Food, music, and raffles following ride at the clubhouse
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Sgt. Henry Johnson Veterans House Dedication
We re-dedicated our Veterans House on June 5th, 2020 to commemorate the life and accomplishments to Medal of Honor recipient Sgt. Henry Johnson, who lived for a time in our neighborhood. The dedication took place at the Veterans House in conjunction with the City of Albany's annual Henry Johnson Day.
This transitional residence provdes a safe home for 28 Veterans. Begun in 1990 this was our first Veterans residence.
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2025 Compensated Work Therapy Award
The Department of Veterans Affairs has recognized Bill and the Albany Housing Coalition with the Outstanding Service Award for their unwavering dedication to supporting our nation's heroes. This award specifically honors the organization's success in employing more than 45 veterans in one year, demonstrating a profound commitment to veteran well-being and career transition.
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Cadets for Vets Fundraiser
LaSalle Institue hosts the Cadets for Vet's Hockey Fundrasier every January.
Year to date, we have raised about 30k for the homeless veterans. Once we have housed the previously homeless veteran, the funds are then used to purchase furniture and household supplies from our local furniture establishments that we have partnered with.
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Cadets for Vets Fundraiser
LaSalle Institue hosts the Cadets for Vet's Hockey Fundrasier every January.
Year to date, we have raised about 30k for the homeless veterans. Once we have housed the previously homeless veteran, the funds are then used to purchase furniture and household supplies from our local furniture establishments that we have partnered with.
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Cadets for Vets Fundraiser
LaSalle Institue hosts the Cadets for Vet's Hockey Fundrasier every January.
Year to date, we have raised about 30k for the homeless veterans. Once we have housed the previously homeless veteran, the funds are then used to purchase furniture and household supplies from our local furniture establishments that we have partnered with.
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Cadets for Vets Fundraiser
LaSalle Institue hosts the Cadets for Vet's Hockey Fundrasier every January.
Year to date, we have raised about 30k for the homeless veterans. Once we have housed the previously homeless veteran, the funds are then used to purchase furniture and household supplies from our local furniture establishments that we have partnered with.
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Combat Veterans Motorcycle Club Winter Clothing Donation
We are so grateful for your recent donation of winter clothing. Here at the Albany Housing Coalition, we see firsthand how difficult the path to stability can be for our homeless veterans; your support makes that journey a little easier. Please know that your gift is already being distributed to the veterans living with us to help them stay warm this season.
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Combat Veteran Motorcycle club Winter Clothing Donation
Combat Veterans Motorcycle Club,
On behalf of the Albany Housing Coalition Veterans Services, we want to express our deepest gratitude for your generous donation to support our homeless veteran program. We understand that the challenges faced by homeless veterans are complex, and your support is a vital step towards helping them rebuild their lives.
Your donation of winter clothing that you donated will be put to immediate use to serve the veterans living with us.
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Helderberg Post 977 Legion Riders Deliver Holiday Support to Albany Housing Coalition
This morning, the Albany Housing Coalition received a special visit from the American Legion Riders of Helderberg Post 977. The Riders presented a generous donation dedicated to supporting our homeless veterans during the holiday season.
These funds will be used to provide our veterans with essential items—the basic necessities that many take for granted, but which make a world of difference to those transitioning into stable housing. We are incredibly grateful to Post 977 for ensuring our heroes are remembered and cared for this winter.
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Elks Christmas Presents 2020
Cohoes Elks sending a Holiday Message with a picture of a gift card for each Veteran in our care. -
2025 Watervliet-Cohoes Elks 28th Annual Veterans House Christmas Party with Santa
The Watervliet-Cohoes Elks are proud to celebrate our 28th year of bringing holiday cheer to the residents of the Henry Johnson Veterans House in Albany. Your continuous support means the world to us; we truly cannot find the words to express our gratitude for everything you do for our veterans. Thank you!
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2025 Watervliet-Cohoes Elks 28th Annual Veterans House Christmas Party with Santa
The Watervliet-Cohoes Elks are proud to celebrate our 28th year of bringing holiday cheer to the residents of the Henry Johnson Veterans House in Albany. Your continuous support means the world to us; we truly cannot find the words to express our gratitude for everything you do for our veterans. Thank you!
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2025 Watervliet-Cohoes Elks 28th Annual Veterans House Christmas Party with Santa
The Watervliet-Cohoes Elks are proud to celebrate our 28th year of bringing holiday cheer to the residents of the Henry Johnson Veterans House in Albany. Your continuous support means the world to us; we truly cannot find the words to express our gratitude for everything you do for our veterans. Thank you!
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NY Chapter 8 Motorcycle Club Shares Christmas Joy with Local Veterans
The NY Chapter 8 Motorcycle Club remains dedicated to supporting our veterans at the Henry Johnson Veterans House. Their ongoing commitment helps residents get back on their feet with dignity, pride, and a renewed sense of purpose."
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NY Chapter 8 Motorcycle Club Shares Christmas Joy with Local Veterans
The NY Chapter 8 Motorcycle Club remains dedicated to supporting our veterans at the Henry Johnson Veterans House. Their ongoing commitment helps residents get back on their feet with dignity, pride, and a renewed sense of purpose."
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NY Chapter 8 Motorcycle Club Shares Christmas Joy with Local Veterans
The NY Chapter 8 Motorcycle Club remains dedicated to supporting our veterans at the Henry Johnson Veterans House. Their ongoing commitment helps residents get back on their feet with dignity, pride, and a renewed sense of purpose."
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NY Chapter 8 Motorcycle Club Shares Christmas Joy with Local Veterans
The NY Chapter 8 Motorcycle Club remains dedicated to supporting our veterans at the Henry Johnson Veterans House. Their ongoing commitment helps residents get back on their feet with dignity, pride, and a renewed sense of purpose."
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The 2023 Meritorious Award recipient
The National Coalition for Homeless Veterans has awarded the Meritorious Service Award to Joe Sluszka Executive Director of the Albany Housing Coalition Inc. for his outstanding contributions in providing housing options to veterans, from temporary to permanent solutions.
Let's End Veteran Homelessness
One of the most common questions we hear is, “How is it that Veterans end up homeless?”
For combat veterans especially, the battle traumas and moral conflicts can be debilitating. Returning home nothing is the same and the veteran likely sees daily life events as petty in comparison to military experience. The onset of post traumatic stress can bring on alienation of family, suicidal tendencies, job loss, addictive behaviors. Feelings of shame, lack of direction, and feeling that only a fellow veteran can understand leads to further alienation. Studies show it can take 2-5 years to crash and the result oftentimes includes loss of housing. Other veterans have experienced dramatic life events, some of which pre-date their military service. Once back home, the same spiral to homelessness can begin.
Executive Director Joe Sluszka reminds us of the importance of our mission, “they come to us homeless and they leave with earned benefits, needed healthcare, employment, affordable housing, connections to family, a peer support network, and a renewed sense of self-esteem."
Our mission is to create relationships that engender trust, insist on personal responsibility, and provide each veteran with the resources needed for a full integration back into the community.
We will continue our work until every veteran has truly come home and has a permanent affordable place to call home, adequate healthcare, education, a meaningful job, has re-connected to family, and is a proud citizen in his or her community. Then we can shut our doors and declare victory because veterans homelessness will be a thing of the past.
We know how to end homelessness among Veterans.
Urban, suburban, and rural communities alike have proven that we can drive down the number of Veterans experiencing homelessness to as close to zero as possible, while also building and sustaining systems that can effectively and efficiently address Veterans’ housing crises in the future.
What's Driving ProgressOur progress has been driven by urgent action at all levels of government and across all sectors.
- Federal agencies engaged in unprecedented coordination and shared responsibility.
- Congress expanded investments into federal programs, such as the HUD-VA Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) program and the Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) program.
- State and local entities and the philanthropic community aligned investments with federal resources.
- Communities have formed stronger partnerships to deploy those resources through best practices, including coordinated entry and Housing First approaches.
- And governors, mayors, and other public officials have mobilized their communities in support of a clear and ambitious goal.
- Review the Criteria and Benchmarks for Ending Veteran Homelessness to see what it takes to end Veteran homelessness in your community.
- Learn what other communities are doing to end Veteran homelessnesss through these case studies.
- Read the latest data about Veteran homelessness.
All contributions help make us a success.
.61 cents a day $19 a month can change a veterans life.
Or send your contribution to:
Albany Housing Coalition Inc.
278 Clinton Ave.
Albany, NY 12210
Donations are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law. The Albany Housing Coalition is an IRS recognized 501.c.3 non profit organization.
Contributors of $100 or more will be sent a letter for tax purposes.