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  2. Skid Row, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    Skid Row is a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles. [1] The area is officially known as Central City East. [2]Skid Row contains one of the largest stable populations of homeless people in the United States, estimated at over 4,400, and has been known for its condensed homeless population since at least the 1930s. [3]

  3. Skid row - Wikipedia

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    A skid row, also called skid road, is an impoverished area, typically urban, in English-speaking North America whose inhabitants are mostly poor people "on the skids". This specifically refers to people who are poor or homeless, considered disreputable, downtrodden or forgotten by society.

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

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    Each of the portraits has a map of a Skid Row neighborhood — 3rd to 7th and Alameda to Main — and then zooms in on one part and imagines, for instance, a street being named after Gary Brown.

  5. Los Angeles Community Action Network - Wikipedia

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    Los Angeles Community Action Network (LACAN) is a grassroots organization based in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles, California.Founded in 1999, LACAN works to organize low-income and homeless residents through advocacy, community organizing, litigation and education.

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

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    L.A. County has seen a decrease of nearly 14% in the homeless population on Skid Row under a project launched a year ago.

  7. In Skid Row, a 19-story residential tower for homeless people ...

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    At the time, Skid Row housing and service providers were looking outward, building housing in the Valley, Westlake, Hollywood and South L.A. in hopes of decentralizing their work on Skid Row.

  8. How problems at two of Skid Row's largest landlords ... - AOL

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    The Skid Row Housing Trust was created to rehabilitate and preserve as many SROs as it could, and the nonprofit was once considered a model for leveraging government subsidies to operate the ...

  9. Skid Row Running Club - Wikipedia

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    In 2012, the Skid Row Running Club was founded by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Craig Mitchell at the Midnight Mission, as an effort to improve the livelihood of those in the Skid Row area. [1] Mitchell was invited down to the Midnight Mission by Roderick Brown, a man Mitchell had previously sentenced to prison. [2]