Trump Order provides for housing veterans in the West La Center

President Trump signed an executive order on Friday, in which he led the Ministry of Veteran affairs to create a center for homeless veterans on the West Los Angeles campus.

The order set the goal of accommodating up to 6,000 homeless people in the center, which Trump called the National Warrior Independence Center, and ordered federal authorities “ensure that funds that were spent on living space or other services for illegal foreigners in order to construct, establish them and maintain them”.

Trump ordered VA Secretary Doug Collins to prepare an action plan for the creation of housing construction by January 1, 2028. He also ordered Collins to report “options such as the expansion of office hours, offer weekend ideas and increase the use of virtual health care within 60 days.

“Too many veterans are homeless in America,” said the order. “Every veteran deserves our gratitude. However, the federal government has not always treated veterans like the heroes they are.”

As part of the action plan, Trump ordered the secretary for housing and urban development to advise himself with Collins to “support vouchers to support veterans of homeless people in the metropolises in Los Angeles and in the nation in relation to these efforts”.

The veterans Affairs supporting housing program, which is generally referred to as HUD-Vash, offers vouchers that can use veterans for housing on campus and rentals in the community. Delays in the processing of applications and the landlord against the acceptance of the vouchers have made many of them unused. In 2024, the VA Greater Los Angeles health system reported that 8,453 HUD-VASH vouchers were available for Greater Los Angeles, but only used 62%.

The initiative takes place in the middle of the proposed cuts of the Trump government at VA personnel, which have triggered the democratic legislator critically from widespread disorders in the entire health system of the agency.

“There are real dangerous effects for veterans,” said Rep. Chris Deluzio from Pennsylvania on Thursday after an investigation by the investigative news site propublica.

The order takes place in a critical moment in a trail of legal disputes about the management of the VA of the campus. It is expected every day from the US 9. Circuit Court of Appeals on the decision of a federal judge that the VA has not achieved a trust obligation to provide living space for veterans. The US district judge David O. Carter ordered the VA to immediately create around 100 units of temporary apartments on the 388 hectare campus and to build more than 2,000 units of permanent and temporary apartments. He also invalid rental contracts from parts of this country to civilian companies, including UCLA and a private school.

The VA made it against the decision and, in addition to other legal arguments, claimed that the costs would harm other services for veterans.

Although the immediate effect on the case was unclear, the veterans of Trump's executive regulation took a positive sign.

“Many of the veterans I have spoken to so far are very happy that the White House has taken this position on the West -los Angeles VA,” said Rob Reynolds, a veteran of Iraq War, who in this case testified to his frustrations that the homeless veterans help to look for apartments on campus. “Just to know that an executive order for more living space has been signed on VA land is a great victory for us. This is something that veterinarians have been fighting for years.”

The veteran collective, a development and service partnership that has a VA contract for the construction of around 1,200 units of supporting living space on the campus, made an explanation that “enthusiastically welcomed President Trump's plan for a national center for homeless veterans”, and he said that he was prepared to greet him on campus shortly.

The group is working on completing the 1,200 units by the end of Trump's term of office, it said.

“With more than 1,000 veterans who already live on campus today, it would be a wonderful opportunity for them to meet the commander -in -chief,” the explanation said. “He would also be the first president to see our progress.”

Another veteran who criticized the development of the campus against the handling of the VA was guarded.

“The president's executive order is A Right, but not yet The Right ”, said Anthony Allman, Executive by Vets Advocacy, a non -profit organization that was created to monitor the development of a master plan that was created from an earlier lawsuit.

Allman notes that the order provides for a plan for more than just living and a center for activities and services for veterans on and next to the campus.

“We look forward to working with the administration to provide the right things – housing, community, staff development – veterans on the historic Pacific Branch property,” said Allman, using the historical name for the disabled soldier created there in the 19th century.

In a lengthy preamble, Trump's executive order alluded to some of this story, including the closure of the veteran apartments in the 1970s and improper rental contracts of the veteran country, which led to the two complaints.

“On the campus, a chapel, a billiard hall, the theater with 1,000 seats and about 6,000 veterans, was once equipped, but the federal government has approved this crown jewel of veteran care in recent decades,” it said. “The Ministry of Veteran Affairs has leased parts of the property to a private school, private companies and the baseball team of the University of California in Los Angeles, sometimes too clearly below the market.

“From 2024 there were about 3,000 homeless veterans in Los Angeles, more than in any other city in the country and made up about 10 percent of all the homeless veterans of America. Many of these heroes live in miserably in Los Angeles' notorious skid.”

The order also required an action plan to expand the Manchester VA Medical Center in New Hampshire to a full-service medical center “so that it is no longer the only state in the adjacent United States” without one.