Sylvia Welker feeds the pigeons on Skid Row in Los Angeles. There are currently 47,000 homeless people in and around Los Angeles. (Gloria Hillard for NPR) Holding the coffee she received at Los ...

A new recovery program is launching on Skid Row, it is created by women and for women. The program is aimed at providing women in-patient resources to help get them on their feet.

"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 ...

LAPD Officer Deon Joseph talks with one of the women who call Skid Row home. A few feet away a woman in a bright pink t-shirt is trying to clean up the litter in front of her tent.

Most of the homeless in Los Angeles County are men, but women are becoming homeless now at a much faster rate than men. Three years ago there were about 9,000 women living on the streets; now there ...

Established in 2002 thanks to a donation by warehouse owner Richard Meruelo, Skid Row's Excess Personal Property Warehouse is still the only of its kind in the nation. The Central City East ...

There are now 47,000 homeless people in and around Los Angeles. The number of homeless women living on the streets has increased dramatically, and many are at risk of violence and sexual assault.