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Skid Row is a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles. The area is officially known as Central City East. 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.
- 0.431 sq mi (1.12 km²)
- California
- United States
- 213
Dec 13, 2023 · A 54-block area in downtown Los Angeles, Skid Row has been synonymous with poverty, homelessness, and crime for decades. Advocates fear the problems in the embattled neighborhood will only increase in the future.
- Kaleena Fraga
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Oct 19, 2022 · The official name of the 50-block Skid Row neighborhood in Los Angeles is Central City East, and it's bordered by Little Tokyo to the north, the Fashion District to the south, the Arts District to the east and the Historic Core to the west.
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Skid Row is a 54-block area in downtown Los Angeles that has become synonymous with homelessness and poverty. Learn about this area in need of help.
Mar 4, 2015 · America’s Skid Row resides in downtown Los Angeles, where the nation’s biggest concentration of homeless people sleep and live on public sidewalks.
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May 15, 2021 · Around 5,000 people are concentrated on Skid Row, a little over half of whom are in shelters or other temporary housing; the rest sleep rough.
Mar 18, 2014 · But Skid Row, located in its utter raggedness right up against rents fast rising to the highest in the city, has become troublingly reminiscent of the ever-spreading shantytowns surrounding the skyscrapers and mansions of South America and south Asia.
