Stories matching tag 'Skid Row'

Homeless Healthcare Los Angeles: The Stages of Change

Homeless Healthcare Los Angeles combats homelessness through medical care, education and drug treatment programs. [...]

Para Los Ninos goes green with help from new solar panels

A unique Skid Row charter school harnesses power of the sun with help from the Walmart Foundation. [...]

Small citations add up to big problems in Skid Row and South LA

The Los Angeles Community Action Network's Becky Dennison has seen an increased need for helping people with crosswalk violations in Skid Row and South Los Angeles. [...]

Food Not Bombs takes alternative approach to feeding homeless

Food Not Bombs is against military and wasteful spending, so it collects food that would go to waste and gives it to Downtown Los Angeles' homeless. [...]

The meaning of Christmas, from Skid Row

Kiera, an imaginative 7-year-old formerly living at the Union Rescue Mission, tells the Nativity Story in her own special way. [...]

Union Rescue Mission serves thousands at Thanksgiving feast

An estimated 3,500 homeless men, women and children attended the Thanksgiving Celebration at the Union Rescue Mission in Skid Row. [...]

Los Angeles Police Department argues nonprofits are better than handouts on Skid Row

Few would disagree that donating time or resources to the homeless is a good idea for the community. But the way the homeless receive assistance can either help or hurt them. [...]

Apartments offer studios for homeless and low-income people

The newly opened Renato Apartments on San Julian Street offers housing for homeless and low-income individuals. [...]

Fourth anniversary of the Safer Cities Initiative sparks protest

Several dozen people gathered in front of police headquarters Thursday to protest the Safer Cities Initiative. [...]

Only a few days left to save Hope Gardens homeless shelter

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Winter shelters close, forcing hundreds of homeless back to the streets

Winter homeless shelters in Los Angeles close in mid-March. The city denied a request to extend the program, despite a "new homeless" population. [...]