{"id":79997,"date":"2025-12-31T02:23:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T02:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2025\/12\/31\/court-upholds-order-requiring-va-to-build-housing-for-veterans-in-la\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:23:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:23:31","slug":"court-upholds-order-requiring-va-to-build-housing-for-veterans-in-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/veterans\/2025\/12\/31\/court-upholds-order-requiring-va-to-build-housing-for-veterans-in-la\/","title":{"rendered":"Court upholds order requiring VA to build housing for veterans in LA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A federal appeals court this week upheld a federal district court ruling ordering the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/veterans\/2025\/12\/29\/department-of-veterans-affairs-reinstates-near-total-ban-on-abortions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/veterans\/2025\/12\/29\/department-of-veterans-affairs-reinstates-near-total-ban-on-abortions\/\">Department of Veterans Affairs<\/a> to dramatically expand housing for unhoused, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/veterans\/2025\/12\/17\/va-to-launch-largest-reorganization-of-health-care-system-in-30-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/veterans\/2025\/12\/17\/va-to-launch-largest-reorganization-of-health-care-system-in-30-years\/\">disabled veterans<\/a> on its West Los Angeles campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a decision filed Dec. 23, a three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that the VA violated the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eeoc.gov\/rehabilitation-act-1973\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.eeoc.gov\/rehabilitation-act-1973\">Rehabilitation Act<\/a> by failing to provide supportive housing for \u201cunhoused veterans with serious mental illness or traumatic brain injuries,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov\/datastore\/opinions\/2025\/12\/23\/24-6603.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov\/datastore\/opinions\/2025\/12\/23\/24-6603.pdf\">documents in the case of Powers v. McDonough<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This violation, in turn, meant veterans were denied meaningful access to critical health care services, the judges ruled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The class-action lawsuit was brought by unhoused veterans and advocacy groups who argued that decades of land-use agreements with private entities diverted the sprawling West Los Angeles VA campus from its intended purpose of housing and caring for disabled veterans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe United States Department of Veterans Affairs\u2019 mission is \u2018[t]o fulfill President Lincoln\u2019s promise to care for those who have served in our nation\u2019s military and for their families, caregivers, and survivors,\u201d Circuit Judge Ana de Alba stated in the court documents, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/about\/\">VA\u2019s stated goal<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis class action lawsuit, and its numerous appeals, demonstrates just how far the VA has strayed from its mission,\u201d de Alba continued. \u201cThere are now scores of unhoused veterans trying to survive in and around the greater Los Angeles area despite the acres of land deeded to the VA for their care. Rather than use the West Los Angeles VA Grounds as President Lincoln intended, the VA has leased the land to third party commercial interests that do little to benefit the veterans.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The panel upheld the district court\u2019s finding that the VA\u2019s lack of adequate housing placed veterans at \u201cserious risk of institutionalization,\u201d violating the Supreme Court\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/527\/581\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/527\/581\/\">Olmstead<\/a> decision. 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