by Rikki Almanza | Dec 1, 2023
After years of legal battles, corruption trials, and a homeless Veteran encampment at the VA gates, The West Los Angeles VA campus may finally be ready to provide more housing for hundreds of Los Angeles’ homeless Veterans.NPR’s Quil Lawrence...
by caLegion Contributor | Jun 23, 2023
Editor’s Note: In a letter addressed to Chairman Derrick Van Orden and Ranking Member Mark Levin of the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity, The American Legion (TAL), Department of California and its commander, Jere Romano, and past commander, Lawrence Van...
by Eric Measles | Mar 6, 2023
This article is precisely what I had hoped to report to the Department of California from this meeting. I was joined by PDC Dennis Fercho and I attended as Chairman of the National Veterans Education, Other Benefits, & Homelessness Committee. I attended two days...
by Makenna Uriarte | Dec 27, 2022
It has been a busy year for The Veterans Collective. Its work is well underway to transform the historic West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs North Campus into the country’s largest supportive housing community for homeless and at-risk Veterans. As 2022 comes to a close,...
by Christian Southards | Sep 10, 2022
A fire broke out just after midnight on Aug. 9 at the VA West Los Angeles campus, quickly spreading to engulf 11 of the 140 tiny homes built for homeless Los Angeles veterans, the LA Times first reported. No one was injured in the fire but the LA Fire Department...
