Just over a month after several migrant families living with their children on the streets of Skid Row were moved into a motel, a more extensive encampment has formed with at least seven new families living in an array of large tents, pup tents and tarp shelters.
For some Eastside residents and organizers, a proposed facility at USC’s Health Sciences cCampus in Boyle Heights is the latest example of gentrification.
As the Rev. Andy Bales heads home to Iowa after 20 years as president and chief executive of the Union Rescue Mission on Skid Row, he's leaving a legacy of his work in L.A.: A nonprofit is buying his Pasadena house to convert it to a 20-family transitional shelter.
Twenty-two Skid Row Housing Trust tenants lost their homes in a fire in February. Residents remain scattered and scarred, unable even to recover most of their possessions.
Twenty-two Skid Row Housing Trust tenants lost their homes in a fire in February. Residents remain scattered and scarred, unable even to recover most of their possessions.