Unhoused veterans have won new legal victories in their effort to increase housing at the federal government’s sprawling West L.A. Veterans Affairs campus.
A judge ruled Sunday that VA officials engage in illegal housing discrimination by disqualifying veterans who were the most injured in their military service. Those veterans have lost out on shelter because their disability stipends from the VA often make their income level too high to receive housing help, under rules for the funding used to build the housing.
And the judge ruled that the government has a legal duty to use the land to benefit veterans under the terms of the 1888 gift of the West L.A. property to the government.