The ongoing saga of UCLA's lease of a baseball field from the VA continues:
From the LA Times: UCLA, the private Brentwood School and a parking company are collectively paying only about $2.3 million annually to lease land with a market value of more than $48 million on the Department of Veterans Affairs West Los Angeles campus, the Trump administration concluded in a new report.* The report, filed with the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday, indicates a shift in the VA’s opposition to portions of a federal judge’s ruling last year that nullified those leases and ordered about 2,500 units of temporary and permanent housing to be built on the 388-acre campus.
The VA appealed the judgment, but, after holding a hearing in April, the appeals court has yet to issue a ruling. In May, President Trump issued an executive order calling for the VA to provide housing for 6,000 people on the campus, a dramatic escalation of the district court’s order. In a cover letter to the appeals court, Department of Justice attorney Daniel Winik did not suggest the VA was dropping the appeal, but described the report as an update, “informed by the executive order.” ...
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*The report is at https://veterans.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2024_wla_leasing_act_cmr.pdf. From the report:
"During this reporting period, UCLA reported that it provided additional services and support to Veterans valued at $2,946,913. VA can neither confirm nor substantiate if the benefits claimed by UCLA were in fact provided to Veterans and if the estimated value of the claimed benefits is accurate."
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