One of several buildings being transformed into housing for veterans at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Westside campus.
(Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
Only three months ago, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs had just 54 units of permanent housing for homeless people on its sprawling West Los Angeles campus, a dismal installment on the agreement it made to create 1,200 units as part of a sweeping master plan drawn up in 2016. That plan was the result of a lawsuit and settlement with homeless veterans who argued that the VA wasn’t fulfilling its primary obligation to be a home for veterans, not just a medical center with the land for lease to outside interests.
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