by Christian Southards | Mar 19, 2022
On March 17, the city of Merced in Central California announced that the Department of Housing and Community Development awarded $4.42 million to the city’s fund for building shelters for veterans who are either homeless or at risk for homelessness. The new funds will...
by Christian Southards | Mar 2, 2022
On Feb. 25, the Department of Veterans Affairs issued updated goals for its ongoing efforts to combat homelessness in the Greater Los Angeles area. The federal department now plans to place more than 1,500 California veterans into permanent housing by the end of...
by Christian Southards | Feb 11, 2022
On Feb. 7, the Department of Housing and Urban Development published its newest Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress, with details suggesting black and Hispanic veterans are overrepresented among sheltered homeless veterans compared to the veteran population...
by Christian Southards | Feb 10, 2022
On Feb. 7, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development released The 2021 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress or AHAR. According to the report, sheltered veterans homelessness fell approximately 10 percent from 2020 to 2021. However, the report also...
by Larry Van Kuran | Jan 19, 2022
The currently proposed Draft Master Plan (DMP) for the West Los Angeles VA campus has been under continuous, detailed planning and close scrutiny for the past four (4) years or more. Recently, the plan was presented in detail multiple times to local Veterans in the...
by Christian Southards | Dec 27, 2021
Last Thursday, actor and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that he had donated $250,000 to Village for Vets to build homes for 25 Los Angeles-area veterans. The “tiny shelters” have already been purchased and built, and are currently housing...
