9 episodes
City of Tents: Veterans Row KCRW
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4.9 • 106 Ratings
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In one of LA’s fanciest neighborhoods, homeless military veterans built a big tent city and refused to leave. That’s when things got crazy.
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Ep. 8 What Now?
Veterans Row is cleared from San Vicente Boulevard. What’s next for the veterans who found community there?
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Ep. 7 Decamping
A top federal official promised everyone on Veterans Row would have a place to go in just ten days. What does it take to make that happen?
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Ep. 6 The Big Brass
US Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough visits Veterans Row. Will he help the dozens of homeless veterans camped outside the VA gates?
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Ep. 5 Disaster
As LA County Sheriff’s deputies try to move homeless veterans to shelters, tragedy strikes the camp, revealing the limits of what law enforcement can really do.
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Ep. 4 The Sheriff’s In Town
Neighbors call in LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva to address problems at the Veterans Row homeless camp. What can the cops do that others haven’t?
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Ep. 3 Blame Game
After a murder on Veterans Row, finger-pointing goes beyond the suspect in the crime. Who’s to blame for the situation that led to the killing? It’s complicated.
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Amazing podcast, highly recommend
City of Tents
A very insightful, respectful look at homelessness, community and our strengths and weaknesses in the fight to end people living on the streets.
Thank you!
Not good and not a campus.
The West LA VA, National Soldiers Home was over 900 acres donated in 1888 in multiple deeds by several wealthy and powerful people. It was deeded to the federal government to be a home for disabled and homeless Veterans. The Soldier’s Home had up to 5,000 homeless and disabled veterans living in the buildings since 1970’s.
This podcast could have talked about what causes Los Angeles to be the nations capital of veteran homelessness. Which is the illegal entities like Brentwood school and UCLA. This podcast could have highlighted the corruption that is stealing the Soldier’s Home. Instead it went into drug use and tragedy. It misreports the acreage donated and calls the home a “campus”. It’s only a campus to UCLA and Brentwood school who are illegally occupying the land at the expense of 4,000 veterans sleeping on the streets of Los Angeles tonight.
Homeless and disabled Veterans shouldn’t be paying rent to live on the Soldiers Home. Private interest like Thomas Safran shouldn’t be able to build a town center. This highlight didn’t address the real issues in my opinion.