Judge Orders More Housing for Military Veterans on West Los Angeles Campus

Vietnam War veteran Robert Rosebrock stands in front of the Veteran Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System campus to protest uses of the campus he says does not serve veterans, on June 7, 2020. Hau Nguyen/The Epoch Times

LOS ANGELES—In a hard-hitting ruling that accused the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) of “turning its back” on the disabled veterans it was designed to help, a federal judge on Sept. 6 ordered additional permanent housing on the agency’s West Los Angeles campus.

U.S. District Judge David O. Carter also determined that the department has been illegally leasing portions of the campus to a private school, UCLA’s baseball team, an oil company, and other private interests—and ordered those contracts terminated.