United States Veterans Initiative

United States Veterans Initiative U.s.vets Long Beach Division, operating as U.S. Vets, is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization providing homeless veteran emergency shelter, transitional housing, case management, employment assistance, and permanent supportive housing services to the Department of Veterans Affairs as a prime contractor and federal grant recipient. The organization holds a single-award indefinite delivery contract with Veterans Integrated Service Network 21 (VISN 21) worth $1.5 million through January 31, 2029, supporting the Health Care for Homeless Veterans program, and competes in full-and-open federal contracting without set-aside designations.

U.S. Vets operates as the Long Beach Division of United States Veterans Initiative, a Los Angeles-based parent nonprofit established to serve homeless and at-risk veterans through transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, case management, benefits coordination, medical and mental health care, addiction treatment, employment training, and life skills programming. The organization has been registered in SAM.gov since 2008 and operates multiple housing programs across California and Hawaii using housing-first models with trauma-informed care and harm reduction approaches.

The vendor's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Department of Veterans Affairs. The VA Veterans Health Administration Under Secretary for Health leads award volume with 17 awards; VISN 21 (a VA subcomponent) anchors the contract work with 12 awards carrying $5.3 million in combined potential value, while VA VISN 22 carries $5.4 million across seven awards. The Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development accounts for 13 awards, and the Department of Labor Veterans Employment and Training Service holds nine awards. These five customer units account for 79 percent of recent awards.

Under the VISN 21 IDV, U.S. Vets has received three delivery orders since February 2024: a $75,125 order covering January 31, 2024, through January 31, 2025; a $99,250 order covering February 1, 2025, through January 31, 2026; and a $228,125 order covering February 1, 2026, through January 31, 2027. All are firm-fixed-price awards without set-aside designation, with places of performance at Carson, California and Waianae, Hawaii, serving the Pacific Region.

U.S. Vets also holds grant positions as a prime recipient and sub-recipient under the VA Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program (CFDA 64.024) and the Supportive Services for Veteran Families program (CFDA 64.033). Recent grants include a $450,000 Project Grant under GPD (CFDA 64.024) from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028, for case management and housing stability services, and a $4.2 million Supportive Services for Veteran Families grant (CFDA 64.033) from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026, providing outreach, case management, VA benefits assistance, and temporary financial assistance for housing-related expenses to very low-income veteran families. Additionally, U.S. Vets serves as a sub-recipient under City of Long Beach grants, operating multiple homeless veteran housing projects including the ADVANCE program (transitional housing for 25 veterans), Cabrillo Plaza PHD (permanent supportive housing for 42 veterans with disabilities), CHAMPS (scattered-site permanent supportive housing for 4 veteran households), SPC 96/99 (permanent supportive housing for veterans with disabilities), ADVANCE Women's program (transitional housing for 20 female veterans), and Veterans in Progress (transitional housing for 48 veterans). These sub-awards flow from Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Development Block Grant funding administered through Long Beach.

Activity has grown significantly: one award in 2022, three in 2023, thirteen in 2024, six in 2025, and one in 2026. The combined potential value across 73 awards is $10.8 million, though combined obligated dollars total $77.6 million, indicating substantial invoiced delivery against open contract ceilings. Only three awards with combined potential value of $228 thousand complete within the next twenty-four months. The vendor's award portfolio concentrates on NAICS 621399 (Temporary Shelters) with eleven awards and NAICS 623990 (Other Community Housing Services) with nine awards, reflecting the core mission of emergency shelter and transitional housing delivery to homeless veteran populations.