Articles for Skid Row

Two newborns died on Skid Row. Officials want to prevent it from happening again
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Two newborns died on Skid Row. Officials want to prevent it from happening again

LA Times  

Following the deaths this month of two newborn babies on Skid Row, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors called Tuesday for a ramping up of services for pregnant women living on the streets. After the two deaths, Supervisor Hilda Solis, whose district includes Skid Row, introduced a motion asking for county officials to craft a plan to improve outreach …

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L.A. County gears up for Trump with millions in funding for immigrants, transgender residents
1 month, 2 weeks ago

L.A. County gears up for Trump with millions in funding for immigrants, transgender residents

LA Times  

The L.A. County Board of Supervisors says it plans to funnel millions in funding to support immigrants and transgender residents as it prepares for another Trump presidency. “Sometimes, localities will issue resolutions that just have nice words,” said Shiu-Ming Cheer, deputy director of immigrant and racial justice at the California Immigrant Policy Center, who said her organization met with Solis’ …

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Fresno has a homelessness problem. So why are its leaders rejecting state-funded housing?
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Fresno has a homelessness problem. So why are its leaders rejecting state-funded housing?

LA Times  

Dez Martinez greeted the homeless dwellers of Santa Clara Street on a recent October afternoon with open arms and a warm smile. “We’re hurting, we’re suffering, and we’re losing all hope.” City officials, conversely, champion the camping ban, saying public spaces have been cleared of trash and more homeless people are being connected with treatment and shelter beds. Still, some …

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New owner cuts security, janitors at Skid Row homeless housing as tenants fear worsening conditions
2 months ago

New owner cuts security, janitors at Skid Row homeless housing as tenants fear worsening conditions

LA Times  

Produce Hotel tenants Jennifer Arita, 51, from left, Jermaine Staley, 78, Diane Zendezas, 74, and Ricky Johnson, 65, look over a dirty floor at the Skid Row building on Oct. 30. “We want to make sure that in all of the housing people are safe, they’re cared for, they’re getting the services that they need,” Bass said at a news …

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HUD gave $10-million tenant organizing grant to L.A. landlord who tenants say blocked their organizing
3 months, 2 weeks ago

HUD gave $10-million tenant organizing grant to L.A. landlord who tenants say blocked their organizing

LA Times  

Tenant union leader Nash Stabolito talks about his living conditions in his room at the AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s Baltimore Hotel in Skid Row in September. So Stabolito said he was “flabbergasted” to learn that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development this month awarded the foundation $10 million to promote tenant organizing at low-income developments across the country. Stabolito …

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AIDS Healthcare Foundation settles class-action tenant case over squalid living conditions
3 months, 3 weeks ago

AIDS Healthcare Foundation settles class-action tenant case over squalid living conditions

LA Times  

Marianne Viviano, 60, walks with her dog Peter Chocolate down steps inside the Madison Hotel in December 2022 in Skid Row. The nonprofit AIDS Healthcare Foundation will pay current and former tenants of a Skid Row residential hotel $575,000 to resolve a long-running class-action lawsuit over conditions at its property. The settlement requires Kramer to provide a statement on tenants’ …

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Los Angeles to get $21.8 million in federal money to help shelter migrants
4 months, 1 week ago

Los Angeles to get $21.8 million in federal money to help shelter migrants

LA Times  

The city of Los Angeles will get $21.8 million in federal funds to help house and provide support services to newly arrived migrants, including migrant children living on Skid Row, officials announced. City officials, with support from the county, had applied for Federal Emergency Management Agency funds to shelter newly arrived migrants who have struggled to find housing after coming …

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Thousands are housed as L.A. County makes progress on Skid Row
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Thousands are housed as L.A. County makes progress on Skid Row

LA Times  

Mike Juma welcomes a guest to his home at the Weingart Center in downtown Los Angeles. In the early 1970s, for instance, proponents of development wanted to demolish much of the area while others advocated to preserve the neighborhood’s low-income housing and services as a way to keep people on Skid Row, which became known as the “containment plan.” Zev …

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Homeless encampment cleanups do little to change numbers of people on the street, study finds
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Homeless encampment cleanups do little to change numbers of people on the street, study finds

LA Times  

Inside Safe workers clean up a homeless camp at 86th Street and Broadway to get people out of the encampment and into hotel and motel rooms June 26, 2024, in Los Angeles. “They just tend to move them around and the numbers tend to return in our relatively small area to previous trends pretty quickly.” Dwight Thomas, 62, right, gathers …

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Why Leo Pustilnikov is buying 1,500 Skid Row apartments and wants to build thousands more
6 months ago

Why Leo Pustilnikov is buying 1,500 Skid Row apartments and wants to build thousands more

LA Times  

Leo Pustilnikov, a 38-year-old developer who is in line to purchase 17 supportive housing buildings owned by the Skid Row Housing Trust, in his Beverly Hills office in July. :: Thirteen years ago, Pustilnikov began working for real estate investor Naty Saidoff, whose company owned thousands of apartments in California and Texas, serving as chief negotiator for his boss’ entrance …

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Hundreds of children live on Skid Row. Can L.A. do more for them?
7 months ago

Hundreds of children live on Skid Row. Can L.A. do more for them?

LA Times  

In the mornings, just past 7:30, dozens of children on Skid Row start making their way to school in the June gray. A migrant children play in front of their family’s tent along Towne Avenue in Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles on May 11, 2024. A migrant child plays with his toys in front of his family’s tent along …

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In Skid Row, a 19-story residential tower for homeless people will offer gym, cafe, art studio
7 months ago

In Skid Row, a 19-story residential tower for homeless people will offer gym, cafe, art studio

LA Times  

“We’re trying to make our little corner of the world look and feel a little better,” says Kevin Murray, president and chief executive of Weingart Center Assn. “We’re trying to make our little corner of the world look and feel a little better,” said Kevin Murray, president and chief executive of Weingart Center Assn. Murray, a former state senator who …

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Honoring Skid Row as a home to artists, activists, community
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Honoring Skid Row as a home to artists, activists, community

LA Times  

Hundreds of artists are set to parade through the streets of Skid Row on Saturday, a brass band booming behind them, in a biennial celebration known as Walk the Talk, which has taken place in Los Angeles since 2012. Too many people see Skid Row as a transient space, and, in many ways, Walk the Talk is about acknowledging Skid …

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L.A.’s accidental homelessness ‘czar’? U.S. District Judge David O. Carter
7 months, 3 weeks ago

L.A.’s accidental homelessness ‘czar’? U.S. District Judge David O. Carter

LA Times  

U.S. District Judge David O. Carter speaks with Paula Chatman, who has been homeless in Skid Row for the past 40 years, in downtown Los Angeles last year. “If we stall this out, there’s a whole generation of people in their 70s and 80s who will just pass away without this issue being decided.” He added a barbed compliment for …

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As L.A. County sees an increase in homeless families, agencies are struggling to help
8 months ago

As L.A. County sees an increase in homeless families, agencies are struggling to help

LA Times  

Migrant families are increasingly setting up tents on Los Angeles’ Skid Row, part of a larger problem of families living without housing in L.A. County. But for us too, because we’re here to meet their needs.” Across L.A. County, there has been a 45% increase in the number of families in the homeless system compared to last year, officials say. …

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Music Review: Sebastian Bach’s ‘Child Within the Man’ makes the case for a Skid Row reunion
8 months ago

Music Review: Sebastian Bach’s ‘Child Within the Man’ makes the case for a Skid Row reunion

Associated Press  

Sebastian Bach’s latest solo album, “Child Within the Man,” is a reminder that every once in a while, a man and a moment meet. Together, Bach and Skid Row were fixtures of hard rock radio in the late ‘80s and early ’90s with songs like “Youth Gone Wild,” “18 And Life” and “I Remember You.” But since parting ways in …

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More migrant families with children sleeping in tents on Skid Row test official response
8 months, 2 weeks ago

More migrant families with children sleeping in tents on Skid Row test official response

LA Times  

Jhon Valencia plays with Thian, 2, with his mother, Katherine Gonzalez, in the back, on Towne Avenue on Los Angeles’ Skid Row. In response to The Times report, Cheri Todoroff, executive director of Los Angeles County’s Homeless Initiative, told the county Board of Supervisors during an April 9 meeting that “outreach teams who are on Skid Row are able to …

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A deal to buy Skid Row homeless housing fell apart. Here’s why vulnerable tenants and taxpayers are at risk
8 months, 2 weeks ago

A deal to buy Skid Row homeless housing fell apart. Here’s why vulnerable tenants and taxpayers are at risk

LA Times  

Marvin Danzey III, a tenant at Skid Row Housing Trust’s Lincoln Hotel, is shown outside the building in September. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation had reached a deal this month to buy six buildings owned by the Skid Row Housing Trust for $27 million in a receivership sale. Jackson Wyche, a senior project manager with Receivership Specialists, the firm managing the …

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Controversial landlord wants to buy six more troubled Skid Row properties
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Controversial landlord wants to buy six more troubled Skid Row properties

LA Times  

A half dozen properties that are owned by a failed Skid Row landlord should be sold to the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the court-ordered receiver overseeing the buildings said, despite the Hollywood-based nonprofit’s problematic history of operating low-income housing. The foundation has agreed to pay $27 million for six properties owned by the Skid Row Housing Trust, which financially collapsed last …

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L.A.’s right-left divide on solving homelessness
8 months, 4 weeks ago

L.A.’s right-left divide on solving homelessness

LA Times  

With an estimated 75,000 people unhoused in Los Angeles County, there’s universal agreement among our readers that the situation in Southern California is unacceptable and deserves urgent action. Mary A. Fischer, Echo Park Many heartfelt attempts by many heartfelt politicians have failed residents, who continue to face tents and trash that block sidewalks, and who fear violence by people wandering …

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A controversial AIDS charity seeks to acquire a Skid Row housing portfolio. State officials want to stop it
9 months, 2 weeks ago

A controversial AIDS charity seeks to acquire a Skid Row housing portfolio. State officials want to stop it

LA Times  

The world’s largest AIDS charity has emerged as the leading bidder to take over a portfolio of homeless housing developments on Skid Row, a move that’s drawn the opposition of state housing officials who’ve called attention to the charity’s troubled tenure as a landlord. The Hollywood-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation is looking to acquire properties, mostly old single-room occupancy hotels, owned …

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Children on Skid Row: Four migrant families form a tenuous community
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Children on Skid Row: Four migrant families form a tenuous community

LA Times  

When the big green sanitation trucks rumbled up, eight of the 10 children living in the Skid Row encampment were away at school, easing the stress on the four sets of parents as they stuffed their belongings into plastic bags and storage boxes and dismantled their tents. Venancia Apiñas and husband Kesly Poveda Sr. watch for police to leave during …

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Column: Is that graffiti or art? How L.A. draws the lines
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Column: Is that graffiti or art? How L.A. draws the lines

LA Times  

How would you explain the Oceanwide graffiti saga to out-of-town visitors? She was to have been revived in Sherman Oaks, but a property owner wouldn’t give Twitchell access — and one random local wildly claimed to see something “evil and satanic” in her blue eyes. The present-day mural wars arguably began in 1932, over “América Tropical,” on Olvera Street, a …

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$2-billion downtown L.A. mega-project gets boost from governor’s office, hopes for approval in 2024
10 months ago

$2-billion downtown L.A. mega-project gets boost from governor’s office, hopes for approval in 2024

LA Times  

An aerial view of the area neighboring Central Avenue and 4th Street in downtown Los Angeles where Gov. The 7.6-acre project, named Fourth & Central, would bring 1,500 new homes, 410,000 square feet of office space along with retail, restaurants and a 68-room hotel to what’s now a collection of cold storage facilities, parking lots and warehouses in Skid Row …

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