One year after President Trump’s executive order to build housing for thousands of homeless veterans in Los Angeles, advocates say little has been done.
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About a year ago, President Trump issued an executive order to tackle veterans’ homelessness nationwide. Among other things, it promised to house 6,000 veterans on the sprawling VA campus in West Los Angeles. It’s not a new idea. In fact, projects and court cases have dragged on for decades around building housing for vets there. And many LA veterans welcome President Trump’s proposal to get something done, but now they are raising questions about what, if anything, is happening, as NPR’s Quil Lawrence reports.