Property Battle Leaves LA Homeless Vets With Few Options  Dec
28, 2013 Originally published on December 28, 2013 5:54 pm
This year saw a major development in a story that NPR has been
following since 2011. That's when a group of homeless disabled
veterans filed a lawsuit seeking housing on a sprawling campus
of the VA health care facility in West Los Angeles. The VA had
taken no action on plans for housing homeless vets there. But
NPR's Ina Jaffe found the department had made tens of millions
of dollars renting out parts of the property to enterprises that
had nothing to do with veterans. Hi, Ina.   RATH: So I
understand this year, there was a ruling in this lawsuit, and a
federal judge declared those rental deals to be illegal.  JAFFE:
You know, that's right. And maybe we should take a moment to
first explain why so many businesses wanted to rent this
property.  RATH: Yeah.  JAFFE: The VA Medical Center in West Los
Angeles is on 400 acres of prime real estate. It's an affluent
Brentwood. It's right next