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Journalist Aaron Glantz tells HRC VA staffing shortfalls and warns of federal funding risks for veterans' housing
Summary
Aaron Glantz briefed the commission on post‑9/11 veterans' mental‑health needs, said the Palo Alto VA serves tens of thousands and reported dozens of vacant clinical positions locally; he warned that proposed federal budget changes (a replacement of HUD‑VASH with a 'BRAVE' plan) could jeopardize programs that reduced veteran homelessness.
Aaron Glantz, an investigative journalist at Stanford University, told the Human Relations Commission that post‑9/11 veterans are a demographically distinct cohort with complex medical and mental‑health needs and that the Palo Alto VA serves a large regional caseload and houses a national polytrauma center.
"Palo Alto has perhaps the most important VA hospital in the country," Glantz said,…
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