
Why prime real estate owned by the VA is leased for a private school, a ballpark and an oil well -- and not homes for veterans
CNN
Los Angeles has the most unhoused veterans in the country. It also has nearly 400 acres to build homes for vets. The land was gifted to build homes for veterans. So why are vets unhoused outside the fence and private school students playing inside?
There are, by latest count, still more than 3,600 homeless veterans here, down just a few hundred in five years There are more homeless vets in Los Angeles than anywhere else in the country.
Meanwhile, abutting beautiful Brentwood in the affluent west of the city lie 388 acres managed by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Much of it was gifted to the nation in 1888 on one condition: that a home for disabled soldiers "be thereon so located, established, constructed and permanently maintained." This land, say advocates, could and should be the solution.

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