The stay related to a judge's ruling that UCLA's use of VA property for baseball was improper has been extended. From Task & Purpose: A federal judge’s order for the Department of Veterans Affairs to build more than 2,500 new units of housing on its West Los Angeles campus has been put on hold for several months after an appeals court issued a stay.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals extended a previously granted temporary stay at the end of November. The appeals court set a hearing on the matter for April 2025, effectively halting any construction of new housing ordered by Carter until then at the absolute earliest.
The stay puts a stop, at least for the next several months, to federal district Judge David. O. Carter’s ruling in a major lawsuit against the VA brought by veterans and advocates for unhoused veterans. In September, Carter ruled that the VA “has not made good on its promise to build housing for veterans.” He ordered the Department of Veterans Affairs to build 1,8000 new supportive housing units on its large campus in West Los Angeles, as well as 750 temporary housing units within a year to 18 months on the site in order to immediately get unhoused veterans into shelter...
Full story at https://taskandpurpose.com/military-life/homeless-veterans-los-angeles-court-halted/.
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