President Obama Thursday signed into law a bill that removes the final legal roadblock to building more than a thousand housing units for homeless vets at the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Westwood campus.
The new law restores the VA’s authority to negotiate and sign leases on the nearly 400-acre property, an authority that had been stripped by Congress almost ten years ago.
The VA’s master plan for the campus calls for building 1,200 units of permanent supportive housing for homeless vets.
The agency’s first order of business will be to turn 65 units of transitional apartments on the campus into permanent housing, said Vince Kane, special assistant to VA Secretary Bob McDonald.
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