Litigation over U.S. District Judge David Carter's September 2024 order requiring 2,550 housing units for homeless veterans on the West Los Angeles VA campus, which the government has appealed.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday temporarily paused U.S. District Judge David O. Carter's order requiring more than 2,500 housing units on the 400-acre West Los Angeles VA campus while the federal government decides whether to petition the U.S. Supreme Court. The panel gave VA officials until Dec. 10 to decide and said that if they do not appeal by then "the stay will be lifted immediately." Plaintiffs' attorney Mark Rosenbaum said the government has "lost every time they have taken this to court."
A Ninth Circuit panel denied the government's request to halt construction in September 2026; Carter's underlying order dates to 2024 in a case filed by unhoused veterans in 2023.
The 9th Circuit on Friday denied the Department of Veterans Affairs' petition for rehearing, with more than two-thirds of the court's 29 judges ruling against the VA, leaving in place U.S. District Judge David Carter's September 2024 order requiring 2,550 housing units — 750 temporary and 1,800 permanent — on the 400-acre West LA VA campus. The court said no further rehearing petitions will be entertained. The VA declined to comment.
The 2024 order sets deadlines of 750 temporary units within 18 months and 1,800 permanent units within six years.