For years, homeless veterans in Los Angeles complained that the Department of Veterans Affairs had plenty of room for oil wells, parking lots, a baseball stadium, athletic fields and swimming pools, but none for them on the spacious grounds of the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center.
“It’s craziness,” former Army Spc. Rob Reynolds, 35, of Westfield, Massachusetts, who served in Iraq with the 10th Mountain Division in 2007, said of the leases doled out by the VA that gobbled up much of the 388 acres of prime California real estate at the West LA site.
A federal district judge has now seemed to agree, following a class-action lawsuit by veterans. A court ruling this month aims to void those leases and make way for vet homeless housing…