Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough has vowed to move more than 500 homeless veterans in the Los Angeles area into housing by the end of the year.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will start by helping about 40 individuals living in an encampment known as “veterans row,” outside the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center. The department looks to get those veterans into housing by Nov. 1, according to McDonough’s pledge made Wednesday during a press conference in Washington, D.C.
“I think this is a question of rolling up our sleeves and getting to work and getting it done,” said McDonough, who visited the encampment earlier this month and spoke to veterans living there.
“That’s what I pledged to the veterans I spoke with on veterans row that day, and what the country expects us to do,” he added.
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