According to a recent count by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority ... "I came downtown on Skid Row in 2003," Smith says. "That's when the bottom fell out of my life." ...

U.S. District Judge David O. Carter’s order to Los Angeles officials to sweep homeless people off skid row into shelters or housing is grounded in his conviction that a wrongheaded focus on ...

The suffering includes dogs being locked in small steel cages hidden by tarps in the heat, being used as drug testers by IV ...

Hundreds of dogs on Skid Row are living in heartbreaking conditions. Animal advocates say animal abuse is happening in plain ...

A new report analyzing the 2023 collapse of Skid Row Housing Trust found problems throughout L.A.'s homeless housing system.

The 50-some blocks known as Skid Row make up one of the most vibrant, social, diverse, interesting and preserved neighborhoods in all of Los Angeles.

The city of Los Angeles is not properly tracking the number of shelter beds available to homeless residents—as is demanded by ...

A new consultant report describes how low and inconsistent rental subsidies and other issues contributed to the 2023 collapse ...

Los Angeles is facing a humanitarian crisis ... but many more live on the streets in squalid conditions. The homeless population of Skid Row is now estimated at 8,000. Twenty years ago, most ...

Skid Row is the epicenter of LA’s addiction crisis. More than 12,000 homeless meth and heroin addicts pass through here each year, with thousands living in the vast network of tent encampments ...

Data from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) showed that in 2020, 1,383 homeless people died in the city, while Skid Row, located in Downtown Los Angeles, is home to one of the ...

She’s also the medical director of Homeless Health Care LA and works at Skid Row clinics, one connected to a needle exchange. Her patients are weary, damaged, and sometimes extremely dirty.