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<div class="timestamp">Jan 24, 2013, 1:30pm EST</div>

<h1>VA, HUD create mobile app to count homeless veterans</h1>

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<dd>Staff <em>Washington Business Journal</em></dd>

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<p>The departments Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development are quickly responding to the Digital Government Strategy released by the Office of Management and Budget eight months ago, <a href="http://www.federalnewsradio.com/239/3204801/VA-moves-mobile-from-concept-to-reality-with-homelessness-app">Federal News Radio reports</a>.

Starting now, VA and HUD will be using a brand new mobile application they created that makes it easier for employees to count homeless veterans as part of their annual point-in-time survey. The approach VA and HUD took shows response to what the Obama administration has been pushing for: to innovate and do more with less through mobile.</p>

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