Los Angeles moves to take control of homelessness agency, citing audits that found reckless ...
Los Angeles officials have moved to take control of hundreds of millions of dollars in homelessness spending after two ...
Los Angeles Magazine3 年
The Citizens of Skid Row: A View from Inside the Hub of L.A.'s Unhoused Community
Skid Row has existed for at least a century, but it wasn't until the 1970s that it became the sprawling city it is today—a forlorn stretch of tarps and tents and SRO hotels corralled into four ...
Cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz reads his book Poquita’s Garden to children in Skid Row
Alcaraz told the students about his book featuring Amaya, a girl who turns a neglected city lot into a thriving garden.
Los Angeles Magazine2 年
Skid Row Nation: How L.A.’s Homelessness Crisis Response Spread Across the Country
Skid Row’s streets are glutted with tents and blue tarps that colonize sidewalks, shroud dope dealing, pimping, addiction, mental illness, death, and disease. Lopez–69 and, in her words ...
USC Center for Health Journalism2 天
A ‘safe haven’ for homeless women provides second chances on LA’s Skid Row
This is a safe haven for ladies,” said Ms. Angie, senior resident manager of the Downtown Women’s Center, while speaking to ...
Unsheltered homelessness projected to be down over much of L.A. County
Homeless officials said a preview of this year's homeless count results shows there will be a decrease of between five and ...
来自MSN1 个月
As ash rained down on L.A.'s Skid Row, clean drinking water grew scarce
LOS ANGELES — As wildfires raged just miles away, Steven Otero watched ash rain down on every item in his home, which is a tent on Skid Row. Even his food and water weren’t safe from the toxic ...