Skid Row’s illegal migrant family realize American dream is over for them in California — and they were better off in Colombia

An illegal immigrant family living with their 6-year-old son on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles would have been better ...

Gangs turn LA’s homeless camps into squalid ATMs – collecting rent and running open air drug markets

On Los Angeles streets, tents aren’t just signs of homelessness — they’re where gangs openly deal drugs and collecting rent. Whether its RV rows choking Compton Boulevard, Skid Row’s packed tent maze ...
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Emergency homeless shelter at LA Mission in Skid Row to be remodeled

SKID ROW (KABC) -- It was demo day at the Los Angeles Mission in Skid Row. Rev. Troy Vaughn was first in line to help knock down the old walls. "What you see here is the transformation of this ...
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18 overdose from presumed spice on Skid Row, officials say

SKID ROW, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Paramedics rushed to Skid Row after 18 people appeared to have overdosed on a drug presumed to be spice, or synthetic marijuana, fire officials said. The Los Angeles ...
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A mobile mammogram unit visits Skid Row, where women’s health services are scarce

87% of women living at Union Rescue Mission were not up to date on cancer screenings.

Memorial held for Shirley Raines, Beauty 2 The Streetz founder who cared for Skid Row's homeless

Friends and community members gathered Saturday to honor Shirley Raines, the beloved nonprofit founder and CEO who helped ...
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In a nation growing hostile toward drugs and homelessness, Los Angeles tries leniency

Inside a bright new building in the heart of Skid Row, homeless people hung out in a canopy-covered courtyard — some waiting to take a shower, do laundry, or get medication for addiction treatment.