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A deal to buy Skid Row homeless housing fell apart. Here's why vulnerable tenants and taxpayers are at risk
An agreement for the world's largest AIDS charity to buy a half-dozen troubled homeless housing developments in Skid Row collapsed ... the future of the properties and the city’s rescue efforts ...
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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 ...
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Skid Row Nation: How L.A.’s Homelessness Crisis Response Spread Across the Country
“The city put the services there and walked away,” Lopez says. In Skid Row, “they concentrated a target-rich population for vendors of substances that were keeping people tied to the pavement.
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Cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz reads his book Poquita’s Garden to children in Skid Row
“We were founded because there were children on and around Skid Row and we were seeing the number of homeless families increase. While the city and the county have invested a lot of resources ...