We’re creating a real community.”The scene at the VA hospital in Sylmar that was destroyed in the 1971 earthquake. (Bruce Cox / Los Angeles Times )The community was a hard-won victory for homeless veterans, who sued the VA in 2011 over mismanagement of the land. (Los Angeles Times / Los Angeles Times)Advertisement“We have to make a tough decision. “We knew that wherever there were homeless, there are going to be veterans,” VA social worker Margaret Ronan told The Times in 1988. Instead, by the early ’90s, huge encampments of homeless veterans emerged on the edge of the land.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 08, 2020 13:02 UTC