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News, Veteran Affairs, Santa Monica

Groundbreaking Held For New Building Part Of West LA Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Posted Jan. 26, 2013, 9:10 am

A groundbreaking ceremony for Building 209 on the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center was held Friday. In 2007, VA Secretary Jim Nicholson designated three buildings -- Buildings 205, 208, and 209 -- to be renovated for long-term therapeutic housing for homeless veterans, according to Rep. Henry A. Waxman.

News, Veteran Affairs, West Los Angeles

Veterans Suit Against West L.A. VA Will Go Forward

Posted Mar. 20, 2012, 6:50 am

The lawsuit challenging VA policies that deny permanent housing on the West Los Angeles VA campus to veterans will now go forward, after the federa...

Willie, a homeless Vietnam war veteran, lived outside the West Los Angeles VA last summer, when this picture was taken, though he has not been seen in the area for some months now. An 1888 deed to provide a home for veterans initially established the property, which is today the largest VA campus in the country. Some are challenging non-veteran-related uses of the land when Los Angeles County is the veteran homeless capital of America.

News, Veteran Affairs, Los Angeles, Santa Monica

VA Sued for Misuse of West L.A. Property

Posted Jun. 8, 2011, 11:51 pm

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has been sued to enforce the 1888 deed that dedicated the original West Los Angeles VA property – th...

Willie, a homeless Vietnam war veteran, lived outside the West Los Angeles VA last summer, when this picture was taken, though he has not been seen in the area for some months now. An 1888 deed to provide a home for veterans initially established the property, which is today the largest VA campus in the country. Some are challenging non-veteran-related uses of the land when Los Angeles County is the veteran homeless capital of America.

News, Veteran Affairs, Los Angeles, West Los Angeles

Annenberg Charges Breach of Trust at West L.A. VA

Posted Feb. 23, 2011, 9:55 pm

The Annenberg Foundation has charged the West Los Angeles VA with improper use of its land for non-veteran-related activities, which it says are pr...

Empty Building 209 on the West L.A. VA campus is to receive $20 million for rehabilitation to house homeless veterans. It is one of three buildings the VA committed for such housing in 2007.

News, Veteran Affairs, Los Angeles, West Los Angeles

VA Secretary Funds $20 Million for Homeless at West L.A. Building

Posted Jun. 28, 2010, 7:33 am

One of three buildings on the West Los Angeles VA campus earmarked for housing homeless veterans in 2007 has this month received $20 million for re...

Veteran Robert Rosebrock (at podium) announced that he had filed suit against VA officials for interfering with his right to display the American flag upside down as a distress call to signify that the West Los Angeles VA property behind him was being endangered by VA policies. Peter Eliasberg, managing attorney of the ACLU of Southern California, is representing Rosebrock.

News, Veteran Affairs

Veteran Sues VA in Flag Dispute

Posted Mar. 17, 2010, 5:00 pm

The continuing saga concerning the proper use of the land at the nation’s largest Veteran’s Administration campus took another turn on Tuesday,...

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