housing. a friend of mine named len was p70 years old. i tried to house her and someone found her dead in a pile of garbage. i m like a human being found in garbage. being are seeing tents all over los angeles. it s not just in skid row. what is different now? sdm what we re seeing people coming from other parts of the state and other parts of the country. until society looks at this from a realistic standpoint instead of political one, skid row won t change. it will continue to look like this and these people who i love will suffer. the story of los angeles has always been one of wealth and hollywood glamour but a walk down 6th street shows scenes from a different script. local officials are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to try to address the problem. new figures show that