The VA is finally making progress on building housing on its West L.A. campus for homeless veterans, but it could still go faster.
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.
Then last month, 59 units in a rehabbed historic building were completed and veterans began to move into the small but beautiful apartments, many with large arched windows offering airy views of the VA campus. In the next several weeks120 more units will become available in two buildings, bringing the total to 233 apartments.
for the housing and amenities that will make up a veterans community on the north portion of the campus. That’s slower than having 480 new homes in place by 2020 as the master plan had called for. But it’s encouraging to finally see more homeless veterans moving into stable housing on land dedicated to their care and well-being.estimate that all 1,200 units could be done by mid-2030. That’s still four years off the master plan’s original forecast. And we hope the project can reach its goal of 1,200 units sooner — the need is so great.
, there were about 3,900 homeless veterans in Los Angeles County. One thing the VA can do to make sure it hits at least the 2030 date is to release control of the land parcels to developers by 2028.
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