NPR – Most Los Angeles residents only know the Veterans Affairs medical center in West Los Angeles as something they glimpse from their cars when they’re on traffic-choked Wilshire Boulevard. From the road it looks like a park, but within the grounds is the largest medical facility in the VA’s health care system. The [...]
SF Gate – Brett Smith’s buddies don’t visit him in his new apartment, three blocks from Ocean Beach and a world away from his old stomping grounds in the Tenderloin. And Smith couldn’t be more pleased about the solitude. “If they come out here, they have to really want to come out here,” he [...]
This veteran initiative is taking off to house Bay Area veterans. Veterans with subsidized housing assistance struggle in finding stable and affordable housing in an impacted market with rising costs. This is crucial to establishing sustaining employment and improving the lives of once homeless veterans. Why is this work so vital? We have at [...]
San Francisco Chronicle – For Mercedes Marquez, assistant secretary for the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, this morning’s visit to San Francisco for a look at a veterans’ housing project was a chance to come home. Marquez, who joined Mayor Ed Lee and other local officials on a walk through the remodeled [...]
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