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Homeless Veterans and Transit that's Anything but Rapid
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Homeless Veterans and Transit that's Anything but Rapid

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In 1888, more than 300 private acres of land on LA's Westside were donated for the use of American veterans. So why are 6000 veterans homeless in local neighborhoods while part of the land is used for commercial purposes? We hear the latest in a long-running dispute that now has the Veterans' Administration facing a lawsuit in federal court. Also, 32 hours and 15 transfers from San Francisco to Los Angeles -- on local transit. On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, what's next for the US in Afghanistan?

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Homeless Vets and the VA ()

The number of homeless American veterans has dropped in the past two years, but Los Angeles still has 6000, roughly 10 percent of the nation's total, and a recent lawsuit says many ought to be housed on Veterans Administration property on the Westside of LA.  Some 387 acres were dedicated for that purpose back in 1888, but since the 1960's, much of the land's been converted for rental-car storage, a hotel laundry, the UCLA baseball team and the Brentwood School. This week, the VA issued a press release describing plans for modernization.

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Reporter's Notebook

SF to LA via Public Transportation ()

"Transit nerds devise routes using dozens of bus or train rides to travel even short distances as a matter of pride." That's according to Joe Eskenazi, with San Francisco Weekly, who could not resist what he describes as "a 32-hour, 15-transfer trek" from San Francisco to Los Angeles.

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President Obama Proposes Drawdown in Afghanistan ()

In last night's address to the nation, President Obama said there won't be peace in Afghanistan just because the US is withdrawing 33,000 troops by next summer. Peace will require a political settlement, including the Taliban. But, he said, the military effort has made that possible. We get the details and reaction from Washington to South Asia.

 

 

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Which Way L.A.? is made possible in part by the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, which supports study and research into policy issues of the Los Angeles region.

 

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