SO IT ONCE HOUSED VETERANS?
Yup, for decades, through World War II and beyond. After the Korean War, it housed more than 5,000 veterans. But starting in the 1970s, the VA stopped housing veterans on the land, and started leasing it out to commercial businesses instead.
https://laist.com/2018/07/10/everyt...st_la_va_campus_--_and_the_plan_to_fix_it.php
Last week, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs set up L.A.'s first temporary tent city in four decades. It’s for veterans without homes — 25 initially, with a plan to expand to 50 as needed — so they can wait out the COVID-19 crisis by sheltering in place and social distancing in their own tents.
Back at the VA campus on Thursday, 11 veterans and a spouse of one hunkered down in carefully spaced tents and tarps in the parking lot.
Just three months ago, VA officials had ignored an oversight board’s call for more emergency shelter beds on the sprawling 388-acre campus, with rolling green hills and decrepit buildings that are largely empty. The VA argued then that there was a surplus of beds for homeless veterans.
https://www.latimes.com/homeless-ho...campground-veteran-affairs-los-angeles-campus
Yup, for decades, through World War II and beyond. After the Korean War, it housed more than 5,000 veterans. But starting in the 1970s, the VA stopped housing veterans on the land, and started leasing it out to commercial businesses instead.
https://laist.com/2018/07/10/everyt...st_la_va_campus_--_and_the_plan_to_fix_it.php
Last week, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs set up L.A.'s first temporary tent city in four decades. It’s for veterans without homes — 25 initially, with a plan to expand to 50 as needed — so they can wait out the COVID-19 crisis by sheltering in place and social distancing in their own tents.
Back at the VA campus on Thursday, 11 veterans and a spouse of one hunkered down in carefully spaced tents and tarps in the parking lot.
Just three months ago, VA officials had ignored an oversight board’s call for more emergency shelter beds on the sprawling 388-acre campus, with rolling green hills and decrepit buildings that are largely empty. The VA argued then that there was a surplus of beds for homeless veterans.
https://www.latimes.com/homeless-ho...campground-veteran-affairs-los-angeles-campus