There are very few options to grab a cup of coffee and sit for a bit in downtown L.A.’s Skid Row. That’s in stark contrast to some of the bougie areas of downtown, where you can throw a rock and hit a ...

All proceeds will be donated to help the Skid Row community. This season, one beauty brand is giving back in big, beautiful way. Laura Geller Beauty has found a way to collaborate with homeless women ...

On Skid Row, women only have a handful of options if they need a place to sleep. The Union Rescue Mission is regularly packed with women on cots set up wherever space can be found. The Los Angeles ...

Women battling homelessness while pregnant may have a much harder time finding shelter, advocates say. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) After the deaths this month of two newborn babies on Skid Row, ...

Mike Juma welcomes a guest to his home at the Weingart Center in downtown Los Angeles. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) Mike Juma sat at the end of the bed in his ninth-floor one-bedroom apartment ...

Some 1,975 people on Skid Row were moved into interim housing and another 990 people found permanent housing as a result of a state grant, Los Angeles County officials announced Monday. In 2023, the ...

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Carmen Trutanich this morning launched a new crackdown on the Skid Row drug trade, identifying 80 suspected dealers whom he aims to exile from the poverty-stricken ...

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, ...

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 ...

After the deaths this month of two newborn babies on Skid Row, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors called Tuesday for a ramping up of services for pregnant women living on the streets. The ...