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From New York Times:
The abandoned halls of the Veterans Affairs campus in the San Fernando Valley may soon be transformed into permanent housing with social services and counseling for disabled homeless veterans.
Los Angeles has the highest concentration of homeless veterans in the nation, some 20,000, according to the Veterans Affairs Department.
Nationwide, there is a need for 27,000 units of permanent housing with support services for homeless veterans, federal officials say, but fewer than 1,000 are available.
"To have 20,000 homeless vets and have these buildings used for movie shoots, we need to reprioritize about what we are doing in this country," said Toni Reinis, executive director of New Directions, the nonprofit group that would run the facility.
Reinis said the facility would have security guards and, while not using random drug testing, would declare itself "clean and sober" and quickly refer tenants showing signs of drug or alcohol abuse to appropriate counseling, possibly at other facilities.
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Posted on April 3, 2007 10:35 PM
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