Research Institutes & Public Policy Analysis

VETS ADVOCACY IS A PRIVATELY-FUNDED, NON-PROFIT ADVOCACY ORGANIZATION ESTABLISHED TO FACILITATE THE REVITALIZATION OF THE WEST LOS ANGELES VETERANS AFFAIRS CAMPUS AS A CONDITION OF THE VALENTINI VS. SHINSEKI SETTLEMENT. VETS ADVOCACY IS FOCUSED ON IMPROVING WELL-BEING AND ENDING HOMELESSNESS IN LA'S VETERAN COMMUNITY THROUGH ADVOCACY EFFORTS THAT UNIFY KEY STAKEHOLDERS STRATEGICALLY IN ORDER TO GALVANIZE POLITICAL WILL AT LOCAL, STATE, AND NATIONAL LEVELS.

TO DEVELOP EDUCATIONAL AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS AND CONDUCT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH FOR THE PURPOSE OF OBTAINING SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION, WHICH WILL BE PUBLISHED IN TREATISE, THESIS, TRADE PUBLICATIONS, OR IN OTHER FORMS THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO THE INTERESTED PUBLIC.

TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC CONCERNING THE PLIGHT OF LOW-INCOME TENANTS AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS TO THE CRISIS

To carry on a continuing program of research, education, information and organization, focused on low-income housing and directed toward those persons of low and moderate incomes who want to improve their housing conditions;

The vision of the Company is to engage in scientific research that results in a higher quality of the built environment and, by extension, the lives of the inhabitants of those environments. The mission of the Company is to provide a platform that bridges the academic design and research disciplines and the design professions and allows for substantive research through the collaboration of the two.