{"id":61648,"date":"2015-08-31T11:10:02","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61648"},"modified":"2015-08-31T11:14:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:14:27","slug":"garcetti-las-homeless-vet-problem-bigger-than-he-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61648","title":{"rendered":"Garcetti; LA&#8217;s homeless vet problem bigger than he expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstelegram.com\/social-affairs\/20150830\/garcetti-backs-away-from-goal-to-end-la-veterans-homelessness-in-2015\">Los Angeles Daily<\/a> News comes an article which reports that Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is backing away from his claim that he will solve the homeless veteran problem in Los Angeles by the end of this year. It seems that the more veterans that they house, the more veterans they find. Funny how that works, huh?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Speaking with the Los Angeles News Group editorial board, Garcetti said Thursday the effort might take an additional six months, and that not all homeless veterans will actually be housed.<\/p>\n<p>His recalibration underscores the enormity of the problem in Los Angeles and the challenges facing homeless service providers. L.A. organizations have housed more than 3,700 homeless veterans since January 2014, according to a recent city tally, but have more than 2,600 remaining. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder what verification process they&#8217;re using to weed out phony veterans who see an opportunity to get housing. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Garcetti appealed to the Senate Veterans\u2019 Affairs Committee in July for more funding to meet the goal by the end of 2015. He said the city needed an additional $5.1 million. In March, the VA announced $30 million in grants to support homeless services in the L.A. area. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s more attractive to just house anyone with federal money without going through a verification process. Just meet the numbers, and collect the checks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Los Angeles Daily News comes an article which reports that Los Angeles Mayor Eric &hellip; <a title=\"Garcetti; LA&#8217;s homeless vet problem bigger than he expected\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61648\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Garcetti; LA&#8217;s homeless vet problem bigger than he expected<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}