Three Polaski County veterans have new roofs over their heads.

Thanks to the efforts of the Habitat for Humanity's Veterans Build initiative.

The home ownership program has the goal of supporting veterans living on fixed incomes and preventing homelessness.

Kentucky Edition caught up with the Pulaski County branch of Habitat for Humanity to learn more about the program.

There's a lot of conversations that happen about homelessness in the veterans community, but not a lot of talk about how that happens and two of the largest drivers are actually affordability and suitability, and that's what this program is designed to to address.

Gary Village is our first veterans Build Initiative project.

It is three veterans build cottages or one bedroom, one bathroom designed for a single or married couples.

Our veterans only.

Lose so many veterans every day because of the pressures of life that they can't cope with, you know, and they're not even aware of the help that is available for them.

This this program offers help in every avenue that they can think of to help veterans transition.

Mental health and mental support is available for them and financial help in every avenue.

Full support in this this program right here, the Habitat for Humanity Inn in being selected for a home.

You're not just setting it in.

Good luck.

It's up to you.

There's a whole safety net underneath me this time.

It's a chance.

It's a chance to get a roof over your head that you probably will not have any other way, just like it was for me.

It's like we used to pray for these days and pray for a day where we didn't really have to worry about where we would lay our head at night.

And I think that that has been something that people don't realize the gravity of.

When you don't know where you're going to lay your head at night.

Consider yourself lucky, because just having like the basic necessities in life is so important and every person is deserving of that.

A big part of Habitat's Veterans Village initiative is actually giving veterans like myself a way to continue to serve by serving other veterans.

For most who enlist, they and they do so because they're very service oriented individuals.

To be able to do something that totally benefited someone else with no personal benefit to me and to be able to work hard and accomplish this mission and actually take this on like a mission, like when I was in the military, it really was a rewarding thing.

To watch her face homelessness and other struggles in life and for an entire community to come together to provide a home for her has just been the most amazing experience.

I've learned through this whole experience how much veterans care about other veterans and I never really thought about that before.

I've never been able to be around other veterans supporting other veterans.

I can't wait for someone else to be able to experience what I'm experiencing right now.

I can't wait to help someone else feel the way I feel right now.

The Veterans Village, built by Habitat, takes its name from First Sergeant Louis de Garrett, an African-American Somerset native and Buffalo soldier, and the United States Army Calvary during World War Two.

Garrett was a pillar of the community who worked as a tailor.

After returning from the war.