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Social issues A place for veterans to call home

The Fountain Valley View: Orange County Register weekly - 3/28/2017

MIDWAY CITY -- The innovative Potter's Lane housing complex on Jackson Street is now home to the first group of homeless military veterans who will occupy studio units built from converted shipping containers. Five veterans settled in Thursday, joining four other men who began moving in March 3 to the two-story, 16-unit complex.

"It's a perfect studio apartment," said Marine Corps veteran Emil Kurt Carson, 54, who for several years lived beneath a bridge in Anaheim, and before that he lived in motels, the backseat of his car and behind a dumpster in a business park.

Each fully furnished 480-square-foot unit got a newly delivered addition that arrived in the afternoon: desktop computers, a desk and task chair, donated by Heroes Deserve Help.

Potter's Lane is a project of the Midway City-based nonprofit American Family Housing.