President Trump signed an executive order on Friday that ordered the Department of Veterans Affairs to create a homeless veterans center on his West Los Angeles campus.
The order established a goal of hosting up to 6,000 homeless veterans in the center and ordered federal agencies to “ensure that funds that may have bone spent on houses or other services for illegal foreigners are redirected to build, establish and maintain it.”
Trump ordered Secretary Doug Collins to prepare an action plan to create housing before January 1, 2028. Hello, he also ordered Collins to report 60 days in “options such as expanding office schedule, offer weekend appointments and increase the use of virtual medical care.”
“Too many veterans have no home in the United States,” the order said. “Each veteran deserves our gratitude. However, the federal government has not always treated veterans as the heroes that are.”
Trump criticized the Biden administration for “shamefully, failing veterans when they needed more help and betraying taxpayers who legitimate expect better.”
The order arrives at a critical moment in a trace of litigation on the management of the VA campus. A decision is expected on any day of the Court of Appeals of the 9th United States Circuit on the ruling of a federal judge that the VA had failed in the fiduciary duty to provide homes to veterans. The judge of the United States District Court, David O. Carter, ordered the VA to immediately create around 100 temporary housing units on the 388 Acres campus and build a total of more than 2,000 units of permanent and temporal housing. Hello, they also invalidated leases of parts of that land to civil entities, including UCLA and a private school.
He was appealed to the decision he had, in addition to other legal arguments, that the cost would irreply damaging other services to veterans.
Althegh the immediate effect in the case was not clear, the veterans touched him as a positive sign.
“Many of the veterans with whom we talk so far are very happy to see that the White House” just to know that there was an executive order signed for more homes in Va Land, that is a great victory for us. That is something that veterinarians have fought for years. “
The veterans collective, a development and service association that has a VA contract to build around 1,200 support housing units on the campus, issued a statement saying that “I enthusiastically applaud the plan of President Trump for a national center for Homessesa homeless” soon.
The group is working to complete the 1,200 units at the end of Trump’s term, he said.
“With more than 1,000 veterans who already live on the campus today, it would be a wonderful opportunity to meet with the commander in chief,” said the statement. “He would also be the first president to see our progress.”
Another veteran who has criticized the management of the VA of the development of the campus was more guarded.
“The president’s executive order is to The right but not yet he The right thing, “said Anthony Allman, Vets Advocacy executive, a non -profit organization created to monitor the development of a master plan that arose from a previous demand.
Allman argues that the master plan requires more than housing and imagines a center of activity and services for veterans inside and outside the campus.
“We hope to work with the administration to do the right things (house, community, development of the workforce, Avia -aireable for veterans in the historical property of the Pacific branch,” said Allman, using the historical name of the disabled soldiers that was created there in the 19th century.
In a long preamble, the order delineates that early history through the closure of veteran’s house in the 1970s to the inadequate leases of the land of the veterans who led to the two demands.
“The campus once presented a chapel, Billard Hall, 1,000 seats, and housed some 6,000 veterans, but the federal government has allowed this crown jewel or veteran care to deteriorate,” he said. “The Department of Veterans Affairs leased parts of the property to a private school, private companies and the baseball team of the University of California, Los Angeles, sometimes at significant under market prices.
“As of 2024, there were approximately 3,000 homeless veterans in Los Angeles, more than in any other city in the country and represented about 10 percent of the homeless veterans of the United States. Many of these heroes live in the misery” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “
Trump requested more responsibility, Collins to rectify the decision of the Biden administration of “again hiring and restor
The order also requests an action plan to expand Manchester from the medical center in New Hampshire to a full service medical center “so that it is no longer the only state in the United States,” without one.
