Posted on 05/10/2025 1:46:37 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump signed an executive order Friday directing the Department of Veterans Affairs to create a center for homeless veterans on its West Los Angeles campus.
The order set a goal of housing up to 6,000 homeless veterans at the center, which Trump named the National Warrior Independence Center, and ordered federal agencies to “ensure that funds that may have been spent on housing or other services for illegal aliens are redirected to construct, establish, and maintain” it.
Trump ordered VA Secretary Doug Collins to prepare an action plan to create the housing by Jan. 1, 2028. He also directed Collins to report within 60 days on “options like expanding office hours, offering weekend appointments, and increasing the use of virtual healthcare.”
“Too many veterans are homeless in America,” the order said. “Each veteran deserves our gratitude. Yet the Federal Government has not always treated veterans like the heroes they are.”
As part of the action plan, Trump ordered the secretary of Housing and Urban Development to consult with Collins on using “vouchers to support homeless veterans in the Los Angeles metropolitan area and around the Nation with respect to this effort.”
The HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing program, commonly known as HUD-VASH, provides vouchers that veterans can use for housing on the campus and in rentals in the community. Delays in processing applications and landlord resistance to accepting the vouchers have left many of them unused. In 2024, the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System reported that there were 8,453 HUD-VASH housing vouchers available for greater Los Angeles but only 62% were in use.
The initiative comes amid the...
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and this is WONDERFUL news for our brave heroes who are currently living on the streets while illegals get the good life..Thank U President Trump for doing this!
Another 90-10 hill the Dems will die on.
Judge will rule it harms the full rights and due process of illegal gang members who will be given the housing and meals plus prepaid Mastercards immediately. Veterans evicted.
I went to this center for ulcer scan.
Not all are so noble. We used to call problem GI’s f—kups. It was done with affection.
The paywall stopped me from reading the whole story so this may be related.
Jackie Robinson Stadium, UCLA’s baseball stadium, and practice field are on VA property and a federal judge ruled in 2024 the VA misused the property. He ordered UCLA to vacate the property. Robinson never played there so I doubt there will be any more appeals.
I’m assuming the VA will build housing there once the stadium is demolished.
In the Revolution, land was granted to veterans.
One of my ancestors was given 6000 acres by the Continental Congress.
There are a bunch of land grant universities in California sitting on federal land called “the University of California”.
Revoke the land grant to them for breach of contract and discrimination against US citizens and start parceling them all out to veterans based on age, length of service, campaign ribbons, etc.
Lotta beachfront property could be reclaimed the same way.
The MSM tries so hard to present Trump as bad for vets.
However, during the era of Trump 1.0 you could literally see the difference before and post Trump with the VA. Major positive changes.
Throw the UN out of the U.S., then renovate the building, and turn it into a VA housing/medical building. There’ 17-18 acres of land there. Plenty of property to expand and build a VA hospital as well.
I recall being in a FR protest on the corner by those VA buildings in West L. A. in 2000 - the GWB/Gore election standoff..I think we parked in the VA parking lot across the street as we were there early from OC. People drove by honked their horns and went to find places to park further on and walked back to join us. Great crowd and great day...
Great information. And excellent idea to revoke land grants.
Would be interesting to see the fur fly if Trump did this.
Regarding the link “landlord resistance”, which goes to
https://www.hacla.org/en/events/join-us-ending-veteran-homelessness-lease-your-unit-today
has this paragraph :
What is House Our Vets?
The Housing Authority for the City of Los Angeles, THE OFFICE OF MAYOR KAREN BASS, the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and other city and county housing authorities have formed a strategic partnership to cut the time it takes for Veterans to qualify and receive housing vouchers.
Kaen Bass is an avowed Communist.
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