"It Took Me 10 Years To Get Here:" LA's Veterans Fight To Secure Housing – Part 2

#116: Today, we dive deeper into the hurdles veterans face to secure housing in LA. Specifically, income limit restrictions, and how this leaves the most disabled veterans – those who need housing and services most – ineligible for most VA housing.  

This is part two in a special two-part series about the veteran homelessness crisis in LA. We speak to Edward Sotelo, a 70% disabled veteran who was unhoused for more than a decade until he recently secured housing in one of the West LA VA's new units. 

We also revisit Josh Petit, a formerly unhoused veteran we met in part 1 of this series. (If you haven't listened, go back to yesterday's episode!)

Guests: Edward Sotello, formerly unhoused veteran who recently moved into an apartment on the West LA VA campus; Josh Petit, formerly unhoused veteran currently living in a tiny home on the West LA VA campus; Rob Reynolds, unhoused veteran advocate and formerly unhoused veteran; Nick Gerda, unhoused communities reporter for LAist