Parsippany group helps build homes for homeless veterans

With the federal government's approval, a Parsippany-based community service agency is working with a private developer to build 63 apartments and townhouses exclusively for former servicemen and women now living on New Jersey's streets.

That partnership between Community Hope Inc. and Peabody Properties - approved by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs - is one of many projects under way across the U.S. as the Obama administration moves toward its goal of ending homelessness among military veterans by 2015, advocates say.

The administration wants all homeless vets - there were ...