Skid Row is the unofficial name for a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles [1] officially known as Central City East. [2] 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. [3]

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.

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.

May 24, 2021 · Since the ’70s, this four-square-mile swath of downtown has been a symbol of the city’s urban blight. But for the people who live there, it’s a neighborhood with codes and customs all its own.

Jan 14, 2025 · Last week, as the wildfires broke out and scorched thousands of acres across L.A., the Weingart Center on Skid Row took in about 19 unhoused people who had been impacted by the fires, according...

Mar 31, 2024 · Skid Row is the homelessness capital of America. It’s going to look different very soon. No area is as synonymous with the nation’s homelessness crisis as Skid Row in Los Angeles. Now,...

The “Skid Row”1 of Los Angeles is a portion of the area in downtown Los Angeles east of the Financial District and the Historic Downtown Center, partially overlaying the core of the downtown Industrial District.

LOS ANGELES (August 12, 2024) – A state grant from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Encampment Resolution Fund aimed at expanding housing and services on Skid Row helped move 1,975 people into interim housing and 990 in permanent housing, according to new outcome data on the grant’s first year.

Jun 10, 2024 · A migrant children play in front of their family’s tent along Towne Avenue in Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles on May 11, 2024. There are hundreds of families living in Skid Row.

Jun 20, 2024 · LOS ANGELES — A 19-story high-rise apartment building will soon begin housing unhoused residents in Skid Row, officials announced Wednesday.