Vets Advocacy: Restoring VA West LA as a Home for Veterans

Vets Advocacy is a nonprofit organization working to transform the VA’s West Los Angeles Medical Center into the nation's largest veterans community. The site was donated to the federal government in 1888 as the Pacific Branch National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. After a period of neglect, the campus is now undergoing redevelopment to fulfill its historic purpose. Vets Advocacy tracks construction progress, shares strategic plans, and updates the community to bring veterans, civic leaders, and advocates together in support of the property's historic revival as a home for veterans.

September 11, 2026

Order to build thousands of housing units on the VA’s West LA campus stands on appeal

December 23, 2025

Appeals court affirms federal judge’s order to build housing on the VA’s West Los Angeles campus

April 8, 2025

A federal appeals panel suggests judge overreached in ordering the VA to build housing

February 28, 2025

Four top military retirees, including leader of Bin Laden raid, join vets’ fight over housing

January 30, 2025

Brentwood School asks appeals court to toss out a judge’s ruling voiding its lease of veteran land

November 29, 2024

Appeals court extends stay of judge’s order to build veterans housing

November 11, 2024

U.S. appeals court stops work on modular shelters on the VA’s West L.A. campus

October 29, 2024

Judge allows UCLA baseball team to return to Jackie Robinson Stadium

October 25, 2024

VA appeals judgment ordering thousands of housing units built on its West Los Angeles campus

October 21, 2024

Judge orders VA to build housing on UCLA baseball parking lot. On the double!

September 26, 2024

UCLA baseball loses its home field — for now — in a lawsuit over its use of veterans’ land

September 6, 2024

VA must build more housing on West L.A. campus, and UCLA and Brentwood School leases are illegal, judge rules

August 27, 2024

VA’s illegal leases on West L.A. campus pose a tough choice for a federal judge

August 8, 2024

U.S. housing officials to scrap a rule that denies housing to the most disabled veterans

August 5, 2024

After half a century of grievances, veterans’ housing demands on West L.A. VA campus go to trial

July 15, 2024

VA housing policy discriminates against disabled veterans, federal judge rules

December 18, 2023

Veterans’ demand for more housing in West Los Angeles to go forward in federal court

September 20, 2023

Veterans’ claims over misuse of the VA West L.A. campus may go to trial

November 16, 2022

Lawsuit seeks to speed housing on the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs campus

Units Planned

1200

Units Completed

766

Percent Complete

64%

Units In Construction

321

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Interactive Map of the North Village

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Senator John P. Jones

Arcadia B. De Baker

The Deed

In 1888, Senator John P. Jones and Arcadia B. De Baker donated 300 acres of land establishing the Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Read the Deed and take part in preserving the history of this sacred land.

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