To the editor: Your editorial’s description of the complicated process of funding and building housing for veterans at the Department of Veterans Affairs campus in Westwood is accurate.
I served on the Community Veterans Engagement Board for two years and was shocked to learn that the federal government does not pay to construct housing for veterans. Hence, developers must cobble together grants and loans.
This is what is unacceptable. That is why it will take another decade to build 1,200 units of housing.
Putting the burden of housing people who served in the military on the private sector is an abdication of the federal government’s responsibility to care for our homeless veterans.
Kathleen Flanagan, Los Angeles