Homeless veterans outside the grounds of the VA in West L.A. are a reminder of how slow the progress in housing them has been, writes the Editorial Board. (via latimesopinion)
A Marine Corps veteran and his wife participate in the Memorial Day ceremony at the Los Angeles National Cemetery in Los Angeles on May 31, 2018. The pair have been living in their car for the past two years.
Just outside the opposite edge of the VA campus sits a homeless encampment. Its population ebbs and flows from day to day, but most of the time there are people living on the sidewalk in lean-tos ingeniously fashioned out of tarps and shopping carts, using the iron rails of the VA’s fence as a back wall, draped with towels and sheets. On a recent night, a man sat nestled in an upholstered easy chair, reading a book in the dark.
VA officials say that some of the homeless veterans they approach outside their gates suffer from mental illness or addictions that keep them from staying housed. No doubt that’s true for a portion of all the homeless veterans in the county , but such problems alone can’t explain why the number of homeless veterans here has barely budged in the last year.
A planned 100-bed shelter on the West L.A. campus for vets waiting for permanent housing — part of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s “A Bridge Home” program — hit a snag when an underground asbestos-laden sewer pipe was discovered. Now, the shelter isn’t expected to open until October. Ideally, some of the veterans on the sidewalk could move into that bridge shelter.Tellingly, one of the most successful homeless housing programs on the VA campus right now doesn’t provide any actual housing.
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