Relocation of Homeless in ‘Veterans Row’ Begins

Walk-in tents that have been purchased and set up for homeless veterans during the COVID-19 pandemic line the street outside the perimeter fence of VA campus in West Los Angeles, Calif., in May 2020. Courtesy of Robert Rosebrock

LOS ANGELES—Sheriff’s deputies joined outreach crews and federal officials on Nov. 1 in relocating homeless individuals in the ‘Veterans Row’, in hopes of clearing up this longtime homeless encampment near Brentwood.

Besides decrying the encampment as an eyesore in the upscale neighborhoods for long, some Brentwood residents were also dismayed that many veterans were forced to live in ramshackle tents erected on the sidewalk, in the shadow of the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs campus nearby.