Housing Being Built for Homeless Veterans

Homeless veterans will soon have a place to call home.

Groundbreaking for the Villages at Cabrillo, a transitional housing development for homeless veterans, was held Wednesday in Long Beach on the site of former Navy housing.

Acting Director of Veterans Affairs Hershel Gober and Long Beach Mayor Beverly O’Neill were among the dignitaries who addressed the crowd of 200 on the 26-acre site at 2001 River Ave.

The 750-bed residential community, scheduled to open next summer, will be the largest transitional housing project for homeless people in the nation, said Steve Peck, a spokesman for L.A. Veterans Initiative, a veterans advocacy group.