Estela Lopez doesn’t leave her office in Skid Row much these days, but when I drop by to meet her, the first place she wants me to see is what’s known in this besieged and neglected district as a ...

"We're trying to make our little corner of the world look and feel a little better," says Kevin Murray, president and chief executive of Weingart Center Assn. and mastermind of a Skid Row residential ...

Migrant children Celeste, 5, left, and her brother Dylan, 8, from Columbia, stand in the open door of the car they have been sleeping in with their parents, Jaidelin Chacon and Jose Gregorio Salina, ...

As its name suggests, Skid Row Housing Trust touts itself as a provider of living quarters on Skid Row, the Downtown L.A. neighborhood that has struggled with one of the largest populations of ...

For more than a century, skid row has been a community of last resort. In the early 20th century, it was the area, on the east side of downtown, where the railroad ended, depositing immigrants and men ...

Where an empty sidewalk once was, a barbershop has emerged. The line grows four deep, the patrons whiling away the time with a dice game on the pavement. Not far away, a woman sells plastic cups of ...