Veterans Maintaining Reedley’s Armory Told to Vacate, Make Way for Low-Income Housing

Published on March 15, 2024

REEDLEY, Calif.—An inactive National Guard Armory licensed to “The Reedley Area Veterans” to operate and maintain since 2004 has been torn down, and the site is being turned into low-income apartments. “I’m not happy about it, and I just think we were dealt a low blow, if you will, by the state,” Vietnam veteran Ralph Urbano, president of the Reedley Area Veterans, told The Epoch Times. In 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order to address the shortage of housing for Californians. The executive order states the goal of identifying state-owned property for cost-effective housing. The California State Real Estate Services Division states that the former Reedley Armory had been identified as excess to the needs of the California Military Department....