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    How brother of a 9/11 firefighter is helping house homeless veterans in LA

    LOS ANGELES — With its donations swelling, a charity formed by the older brother of a firefighter who died in the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center was ready to up its game. Its mission of paying the mortgages of fallen first responders' families and building housing for critically injured veterans was no longer enough, Tunnel to Towers founder Frank Siller decided. "We must ...
    by Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times Jul 01, 2022 5 minutes
    Construction workers walk past a building that is being refurbished as housing for veterans on the Veterans Affairs West L.A. campus.

    LOS ANGELES — With its donations swelling, a charity formed by the older brother of a firefighter who died in the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center was ready to up its game.

    Its mission of paying the mortgages of fallen first responders' families and building housing for critically injured veterans was no longer enough, Tunnel to Towers founder Frank Siller decided.

    "We must expand our mission to eradicate homelessness among our veterans nationwide," Siller told his board late last year.

    That goal has brought the New York-based nonprofit to Los Angeles, where it is making a key contribution to expedite the agonizingly slow redevelopment of the Department of Veterans Affairs' West Los Angeles campus into a community for 3,000 veterans.

    An undisclosed grant from Tunnel to Towers will fill

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