A new 12-story supportive housing tower is climbing out of the ground at 554 S. San Pedro Street in Downtown Los Angeles, ...

Skid Row in Los Angeles stands as a stark example of what happens when ideology overrides reality. Spanning roughly fifty ...

Pras Michel, a multi-platinum mainstay of radio, television and hip-hop magazine covers, found out last year what it's like to live on Skid Row. With a small crew and a couple of undercover cameras ...

A block party in the heart of downtown Los Angeles’ Skid Row offered a seat at the table to everyone as The Midnight Mission hosted its traditional Thanksgiving Day feast, transforming Sixth Street ...

Poverty doesn’t have to be miserable 24/7. No matter what a person’s economic status, joy is possible—and that joy can serve as resistance to oppression in all its forms. This year’s 16th annual ...

Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles is home to one of the largest homeless populations in the United States. It's also where a women’s center is helping people find hope and healing, and the women behind ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Three hospitals acknowledge putting discharged homeless patients into taxicabs and sending them to the downtown skid row area, the Los Angeles Times reported. Representatives of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A proposed mega-development in downtown Los Angeles, which would replace a cold storage facility with a $2-billion residential and ...

The Downtown Women's Center's cafe has been steadily serving the Skid Row community for over a decade, giving women transitioning out of homelessness job training and steady employment. The backstory: ...

Where an empty sidewalk once was, a barbershop has emerged. The line grows four deep, the patrons whiling away the time with a dice game on the pavement. Not far away, a woman sells plastic cups of ...