These programs for homeless veterans provide affordable housing and services to help with difficulties such as mental illness, chemical dependency or chronic health problems.

President Obama's budget outline for 2010 seeks to increase these programs for veterans.

Under the section of the budget plan for the Department of Veterans Affairs is a paragraph stating the Obama administration's commitment to expand the VA's "current services to homeless veterans through a collaborative pilot program with nonprofit organizations. This pilot will help maintain stable housing for veterans who are at risk of falling into homelessness while helping VA to continue providing them with supportive services."

In a speech at the Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington on March 16, Obama said his budget plan "provides new help for homeless veterans, because those heroes have a home — it's the country they served, the United States of America. And until we reach a day when not a single veteran sleeps on our nation's streets, our work remains unfinished."

There is no dollar figure attached to this program in the proposal. We'll be looking for more detail as this budget plan works its way through the legislative process. But for now, its inclusion in Obama's proposed budget is enough to move this one to In the Works.