Homeless and Disabled Veterans in Los Angeles
In 2024, Los Angeles continues to prioritize projects like UCLA. Expansion and the Olympic Games, while homeless and disabled veterans are left behind. Los Angeles is the nation’s capital of veteran homelessness and suicide, and this crisis is largely preventable.
What makes this reality even more troubling is that the land meant to house veterans already exists.
In 1888, more than 900 acres of land were donated through multiple deeds by wealthy and influential individuals. The land was entrusted to the federal government with a clear purpose: to serve as a permanent home for homeless and disabled veterans.
For nearly a century, the Soldiers’ Home, also known as the West Los Angeles VA, fulfilled that mission. On any given night, it provided housing for 4,000 to 5,000 homeless and disabled veterans. This land was never meant for commercial use, private leasing, or large-scale development—it was meant to be a home.
Offered services and rehabilitation
They were offered services and rehabilitation, and lived in buildings rent-free for the sacrifice of their service.
Today, over four to five thousand Veterans sleep on the streets and curbs of Los Angeles.
This is because third-party entities like UCLA, Brentwood School, and third-party developers are illegally occupying the Veterans’ land. Contractors made up terms like “Veteran Centric” and “Campus.” This serves to try and turn what is supposed to be a home for the homeless. Veterans into a playground for Brentwood elitists and politicians.
If you did not know about the C&H Tract, you can learn more about it here.
If you want to know why I mention the Olympics, it is because they are planning to HOUSE Olympic athletes and trainers on Veterans Ave. The 36 acres were illegally and immorally taken from the Veterans. See articles below.
If the politicians wanted to make a change. They could put the biggest dent in Veterans’ homelessness in Los Angeles. This can be done by housing over 3,000 homeless and disabled Veterans. These Veterans are the only Stakeholders of the deed-restricted 900+ acres, including the C&H Tract on Veterans Ave.
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