For every student sleeping in the apartment tonight on Veteran Ave is a Veteran sleeping on the curb. Did you know about the C&H Tract?
The C&H Tract is a 35-acre portion of the historic West Los Angeles Soldiers Home. The land was donated in 1888 with strict deed restrictions. These required it to be used exclusively as a permanent home and healing community for disabled veterans. UCLA later took control of the C&H Tract after agreeing to build a veterans medical center on the site, a promise that was never fulfilled.
Instead, the land was repurposed for campus expansion, student housing, and university projects unrelated to veteran care.
This violation of the original deed restrictions is part of a much larger controversy surrounding the Soldiers’ Home. Over 900 acres were intended to serve disabled and homeless Veterans, but have been leased, underused, or diverted for private benefit for decades. Critics argue that these illegal land deals have directly contributed to the humanitarian crisis of veteran homelessness in Los Angeles. This crisis remains one of the largest in the country despite the VA possessing the largest dedicated veterans campus in the world.
For more than a century, the Soldiers’ Home was meant to provide housing, medical support, and community care for veterans. At one time thousands of Veterans went from homelessness to being rehabilitated at the Soldiers’ Home. So why in 2025 do thousands of disabled Veterans remain unhoused within miles of property that was legally deeded for their benefit? Understanding the history of the C&H Tract and UCLAs role is crucial. We must ensure accountability, restore the land to the HOME it once was, and fight to end Veteran homelessness once and for all.
This is not to blame or be mad at the UCLA students for living on the C&H TRACT, FYI.
Are they teaching this in the classes? It’s the people who run the institution and bought off politicians who have prioritized UCLA over following federal law. This occurs despite it being incredibly inhumane, unethical, and immoral. The collateral damage of this is Los Angeles being the nation’s Capital of Veteran Homelessness and Suicide.
Anything on the 900+ acres of deed-restricted land is permanently maintained by the federal government to be a HOME for disabled and homeless veterans and their families. The land was donated in 1888 in several deeds by several wealthy and powerful individuals. It was meant to be a Soldiers’ Home rent-free in perpetuity.
As you’ll see, UCLA was able to occupy C&H Tract, which is 35+ acres, under the condition that they’d build a medical center. They didn’t. At the time when they were trying to get the land, even President Ronald Regan made a statement addressing his concerns. He doubted it might not be in the taxpayers’ interest and that it broadened the scope of the home. It is clearly stated that the only purpose for UCLA to have that land is for the medical center. In no way is this meant for student housing.
IT’S WRONG TO THINK HOW more students live on soldiers home than veterans. No wonder everyone calls Soldiers Home the “C Word” (campus). It’s not a campus and it should never be called that or refered to as that or used as that.
Exhibit 1: a former @ucla employee explains what he saw and did over 30 years being employed by the university. (More info coming on that)
Exhibit 2: Informing Denis McDonough, the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and Dr. Steven Braverman of the “C&H tract”, who was appointed as the Interim VISN 22 Network Director effective May 1, 2023.
Exhibit 3: a visual of the veterans’ 36 acres of land taken by UCLA on Veterans Ave, “C&H Tract”. You should know that in 1988, wealthy and powerful people donated over 900 acres. In an act of Congress that is deed-restricted to be permanent. Maintained as a HOME for disabled and homeless veterans and their families.
MORE DOCUMENTS ABOUT C&H TRACT AND RONALD REAGAN’S COMMENT AND CONCERN.
Exhibit: Showing the public how beautiful the @ucla student housing is while Los Angeles remains the nation’s capital of veteran homelessness.
Exhibit: how politicians use the media to go from a C&H Tract to a medical center to affordable student housing. This is illegal and immoral on deed-restricted land to be a Veterans “home”. Not a student’s “campus”.
Exhibit: Ronald Reagan, who was president at the time, wrote a specific note in paragraph 2 regarding his concern for the “C&H tract” and that it would set a bad precedent for the future of the West LA VA, Soldiers’ Home. He was right.
Exhibit: more proof that #UCLA was supposed to build a medical center for veterans. For every graduate student living on Veterans Avenue, there is a homeless veteran dying in the streets of Los Angeles. This is the C&H Tract!
We can end Veteran homelessness in 2025 lawfully and without costing taxpayers $1. When there is more public awareness for the truth than the land grabbers, Veteran homelessness will end.
Learn about how UCLA took a Veterans baseball field.
