Even deeper into skid row, a live-work loft project is proposed at the old Catalina swimwear headquarters on San Pedro Street across from the Downtown Women’s Center, which serves homeless clients.

"It does not make sense to say you cannot put a roof over everybody's heads on Skid Row in the next 90 days for women and children and the next 180 days for everyone when you can quickly do it for ...

A homeless woman looks through a pile of trash for anything useful in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles on July 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) By Rick Orlov | [email protected] UPDATED ...

As of January 2020, there were more than 66,400 people in Los Angeles County, with 41,000 within LA city limits. While the homeless population was once largely confined to the notorious Skid Row ...

Five thousand housing units are in the works. The holdup is Skid Row, whose outer edges are now an incongruous mix of women in rags and mudlike faces and women in sweet perfumes and tailored suits.