A federal judge issued a final ruling Friday in the legal battle by homeless vets suffering from serious mental illness to force the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs to make the huge VA campus in West Los Angeles serve their needs again.
U.S. District Judge David Carter entered final judgment in favor of the veterans and issued a permanent injunction requiring the department to build 1,800 supportive housing units on the campus within six years so that veterans can have accesses to the services they require without having to live on the streets nearby.
“Plaintiffs in this case, like many generations of American service-members before them, bear indelible physical and mental scars from their time in the armed forces,” the judge, himself a Vietnam veteran, wrote in a separate opinion. “The VA in West Los Angeles, however, has for decades strayed from its mission to care for these veterans.”
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