Great, captivating and informative podcast. Thank you Anna Scott!

Amazing podcast, highly recommend

The West LA VA, National Soldiers Home was over 900 acres donated in 1888 in multiple deeds by several wealthy and powerful people. It was deeded to the federal government to be a home for disabled and homeless Veterans. The Soldier’s Home had up to 5,000 homeless and disabled veterans living in the buildings since 1970’s. This podcast could have talked about what causes Los Angeles to be the nations capital of veteran homelessness. Which is the illegal entities like Brentwood school and UCLA. This podcast could have highlighted the corruption that is stealing the Soldier’s Home. Instead it went into drug use and tragedy. It misreports the acreage donated and calls the home a “campus”. It’s only a campus to UCLA and Brentwood school who are illegally occupying the land at the expense of 4,000 veterans sleeping on the streets of Los Angeles tonight. Homeless and disabled Veterans shouldn’t be paying rent to live on the Soldiers Home. Private interest like Thomas Safran shouldn’t be able to build a town center. This highlight didn’t address the real issues in my opinion.

A very insightful, respectful look at homelessness, community and our strengths and weaknesses in the fight to end people living on the streets. Thank you!

…rather than snarky, biased, opinion blathering? NO it’s NOT ok that the homeless are creating problems, like “piles of garbage”, for the nearby community to deal with. The narrator practices shady pro-homeless advocacy rather than journalism.

The title is really all I want to say. What could have been an outstanding pod is reduced to pretty good. For me, all that music gives it a cheesy sound.

Fascinating look at Brentwood’s tent city beside the VA. Would love to say it shocking but it seems pretty in check with the way America operates these days. Every Los Angelean should listen to this to get a better understanding of the struggle the people they pass on the streets face everyday.

While most podcast shops keep focusing on murder mysteries and pop culture and endless vamping, this deeply reported podcast shows that you can tell a rich — even fun — story about ugly, hard societal problems. Looking forward to following Anna Scott, and the people whose stories she’s telling, down this path.

I used to live in this neighborhood and witnessed Veteran’s Row firsthand. This podcast is looking at the issue from multiple perspectives and digs deep into the historical roots of the VA and answers so many questions that people don’t even know to ask. Well done.

I was sad that there are only 2 episodes out yet since I’m fully invested in this story now. I wanted to binge it but at least I know there are more coming. Great reporting.

thank you, Anna Scott for humanizing these unhoused veterans. They’re not a problem to be solved, but humans to be helped. they are actually there asking for help and being turned away. That’s the disgraceful part! thank you for breaking this news story down from the sensational headlines to the actual people.

As a native-born Angeleno and recent resident of West Hollywood, homelessness has become an increasingly vital part of my city’s story, an issue that everyone agrees needs to be addressed yet few agree on the best way how. This podcast features an aspect of the city’s most prevalent crisis I wasn’t as familiar with: The origin story of Veteran’s Row in Brentwood and the people and circumstances behind it. Well-produced, beautifully written and engagingly-presented by Anna Scott, the first two episodes are informative, engrossing and incredibly insightful. I learned more about the VA in Los Angeles than I ever knew - and the moral/ethical questions already being raised are shifting my views on a topic that should be far from immutable. Listen to this podcast to be entertained while you learn. My hope is that this powerful piece of journalism may move the needle… or at least inspire fresh ideas for how to tackle an old - and devastating - challenge.

If you live in the Los Angeles area — where a crisis of homelessness has been unfolding for years — or care about the people we ask to die for their country, this is a story you need to hear. It’s well-crafted, well-paced and expertly told. I wish there was more of this kind of local journalism.

Anna Scott knows how to bring out the humanity in tough, hard to understand subject matter. Thankful for her reporting.