Returning Women Soldiers Search for a Place to Call Home

Over the past decade, the number of female veterans who have become homeless has nearly doubled to roughly 6,500, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. Most of them are younger than 35.

In a report featured on on NPR's Morning Edition pegged to Veterans Day, Susan Kaplan, a 2010 Dart Ochberg Fellow and a reporter for WFCR in Amherst, Mass., examines the plight of women soldiers who return to civilian life without key coping skills.

Read the Morning Edition transcript here. Listen to the full report here.