Imagine Home

Imagine Every Veteran in Los Angeles
Has A Place They Can Call Home.

REIMAGINING
VA WEST LA

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WHAT IS #VATHERIGHTWAY

Vets Advocacy
#VATheRightWay is a call-to-action created and managed by Vets Advocacy. The campaign encourages you to read the deed and discover the unique history behind VA West Los Angeles, participate in the master planning process to build 1,200 units of permanent supportive housing at VA West Los Angeles and join initiatives to combat veterans homelessness throughout Los Angeles County.
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CURRENT
Numerous buildings capable of housing and providing services to homeless Veterans stand neglected across the West LA VA campus.

Numerous buildings capable of housing and providing services to homeless Veterans stand neglected across the West LA VA campus.

Numerous buildings capable of housing and providing services to homeless Veterans stand neglected across the West LA VA campus.

Despite efforts to curb Veteran homelessness nearly 3,900 Veterans in Los Angeles County are still without permanent housing. (Source: 2018 Homeless Count)

OPPORTUNITY
Recently passed legislation will allow for at least 1,200 permanent supportive housing units for Veterans on the West LA VA campus. (Photo: Wally Skalij / LA Times)

The Master Plan will transform the West Los Angeles VA campus into a 21st Century home for all Veterans in Los Angeles County.

Recently passed legislation will allow for at least 1,200 permanent supportive housing units for Veterans on the West LA VA campus. (Photo: Wally Skalij / LA Times)

Recently passed legislation will allow for at least 1,200 permanent supportive housing units for Veterans on the West LA VA campus. (Photo: Wally Skalij / LA Times)

READ THE DEED

Senator John P. Jones
Arcadia B. De Baker

In 1888, Senator John P. Jones and Arcadia B. De Baker donated 300 acres of land establishing the Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Read the Deed and take part in preserving the history of this sacred land.

READ THE DEED

MEDIA COVERAGE

  • New building on West LA VA campus to house 59 homeless and at-risk veterans

  • Permanent housing facility for homeless veterans opens at West LA VA as part of multistep city plan

  • New housing opens for 59 homeless veterans on VA land in Los Angeles – 6 years after 1,200 units were promised

  • ‘It’s a blessing’: Homeless vets find housing on West LA VA campus

  • VA adds housing for homeless veterans on West LA Campus

  • Nearly $200M in state funding awarded for affordable housing developments in L.A. County

  • Veterans claim anti-vet bias in Metro’s choice of muralist for a new VA station

  • GLA launches Same-Day Housing Hotline for Homeless Veterans

  • Rep Lieu and Sen Feinstein applaud inclusion of West LA VA easement provision in Defense Bill