Washington—Senator Dianne Feinstein and Representative Ted Lieu (both D-Calif.) today introduced the West Los Angeles VA Campus Improvement Act, a bill that would allow the West Los Angeles VA Campus to use proceeds from property leasing to build additional housing for homeless veterans. Under current Department of Veterans Affairs regulations, the West LA VA…
This article was posted by KCRW on November 11, 2020. On San Vicente Boulevard in Brentwood, there’s a homeless encampment that’s hard to miss. While it’s not unusual to see makeshift shelters on the streets of just about every neighborhood in Los Angeles, this particular encampment is striking in its uniformity. More than two dozen…
Washington—Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today introduced the West Los Angeles VA Campus Improvement Act, a bill that would allow the West Los Angeles VA Campus to use proceeds from property leasing to build additional housing for homeless veterans. Under current Veterans Administration regulations, the West LA VA can only use lease proceeds for campus beautification.…
This article was posted by laweekly.com on November 11, 2019. With two large hospitals, numerous administration buildings and living quarters, two theaters, a baseball stadium, golf course, a botanical garden, and its own cemetery, the V.A campus in Westwood is a city within a city. What started as the Sawtelle Disabled Veterans Home in 1988…
This article was posted by Just Jared on November 6, 2019. Wilmer Valderrama and Jay Ellis walk the red carpet together while attending the U.S.VETS Salute Gala on Tuesday night (November 5) at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. The guys were joined at the event by stars like Veep‘s Tony Hale, Sister Sister‘s Tia Mowry, Star Trek‘s Ethan Peck, and Animal Kingdom‘s Christina Ochoa. Ethan’s…
Leadership Council Chaired by United Talent Agency CEO Jeremy Zimmer, Includes City National Bank’s Kelly Coffey, The Home Depot Foundation’s Shannon Gerber, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, HBO’s Amy Gravitt and NBCUniversal’s Ron Meyer U.S.VETS, the nation’s largest veteran services nonprofit, today announced the launch of a $10-million capital campaign, The Veterans Fund, to build…
This article was posted by Yahoo! Entertainment on October 28, 2019. United Talent Agency CEO Jeremy Zimmer will chair a new campaign from nonprofit U.S. Vets called The Veterans Fund, which will raise money in order to build what it says will be the nation’s largest veteran housing community. The nonprofit announced a $10 million…
This article was posted by Curbed on October 24, 2019. The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve up to $24.3 million in funding to repurpose a building on the Veterans Affairs campus in West Los Angeles for housing for veterans. That represents about 70 percent of the cost for the project, called…
This segment was posted by NPR Morning Edition on June 12, 2019. Los Angeles has one of the nation’s most intractable homeless populations. But one demographic bucks the trend: veterans. NOEL KING, HOST: Los Angeles County released its annual homeless count last week, and the results were bleak. The number of homeless Angelenos increased by…
This article was posted by LAist on June 5, 2019. On Tuesday, the county released the bleak results of its annual count of homeless people in Los Angeles. Overall, the number of Angelenos sleeping on the streets or in temporary shelters increased by a whopping 12 percent — a major disappointment, given the ongoing efforts…