City of Tents: Veterans Row

Great, captivating and informative podcast. Thank you Anna Scott!

Amazing podcast, highly recommend

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!

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.