| What is Skid Row | In the 1880’s all the trains heading west ended in Los Angeles. As the economy changed and people rode the rails looking for work and new lives, many ended up in LA; broke and broken. You can still see many of the train tracks in bits and pieces of the pavement throughout the area.
Skid Row became formalized in a 1975 Redevelopment Plan with a “Policy of Containment”. As a physical, mapable, geographic neighborhood also known as Central City East in downtown Los Angeles where low income and homeless individuals and families live in shelters, SRO’s and on the streets. Skid Row is often associated as the community of homeless people living in tents and boxes. Many social service outreach programs are located there as well. The original term Skid Row came from loggers who lived in a logging town where trees were skidded into the river as part of the Lumber Process. After the Lumber Industry dried up, many loggers stayed behind, jobless and homeless. |
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| Where is Skid Row | . According to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in April 2006; the official boundaries are Third and Seventh Streets to the north and south and Alameda and Main Streets to the east and west, respectively. | |
| How long do people stay on Skid Row | I can’t find a statistic on this. I m going tp speak from what I have witnessed.
Without serious and in depth outreach and outside intervention: Skid Row = Death Row and people become accustomed to it and never leave. They may transition from the streets to shelters to an SRO, but the longer they are there, the less likely they will leave. |
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| What services are available to Homeless Residents | LAMP Community 627 San Julian Street –
Midnight Mission – 601 South San Pedro Street, Los Angeles
Union Rescue Mission 545 San Pedro St • Los Angeles
The Hippie Kitchen Hospitality Kitchen
There are hundreds more: these are my favorites and in my experience: the best.
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| What rights do Homeless Folks have | All the basic civil and legal rights afforded to all people. The right not to be touched and harassed by the Central city Security (Red shirts, yellow shirts, Purple shirted private security on bikes)The right to sit and sleep on the street between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 6:30 a.m. the ACLU fought for this window of time permitting sleep in violation of the Anti-Camping Law 41.18(d). | |
| What is the crime rate on Skid Row |
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| Does anything need to change? |
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Wow… interesting info…. There is something I would like to see too, the Statistics…. let’s see if we can find them!
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The existence of the presence of people living on the streets is utterly unacceptable. How can I help?
I heard that without ‘Rent Control’ PREDATORY investors can come in, buy a property and then arbitrarily raise rents beyond the occupants ability to pay. This forces working class US Citizens out onto the streets. Makes no sense if California is so Socialistic.