Editing Skid row (section)

===Los Angeles===
{{Main article|Skid Row, Los Angeles}}[[File:Tenting in Los Angeles Skid Row.jpg|thumb|Tents of homeless people on the sidewalk in [[Skid Row, Los Angeles]]]]The Los Angeles Skid Row is an area on the East side of Downtown Los Angeles, roughly bounded by Los Angeles Street on the West, Central Avenue on the East, 4th Street on the North, and 8th Street on the South. The area was originally home to many cheap, low-quality hotels, popular with itinerant laborers and new arrivals to the city owing to its proximity to the train station and central location.<ref>{{cite web|date=July 24, 2021|title=History of Downtown Los Angeles|url=http://www.lachamber.com/clientuploads/LUCH_committee/102208_History_of_Skid_Row.pdf|website=Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce}}</ref> In an attempt to rehabilitate the area in the 1960s, most of the run-down single-room occupancy hotels were demolished. This led to major reduction in the amount of very low-cost, bare minimum housing available to the area's extremely low-income population, contributing to the severe homelessness problem in the area. Skid Row was once located at the industrial periphery of Los Angeles' often neglected downtown area. As downtown has been revitalized since the 1990s and the adjacent Arts District area has gone from a desolate industrial wasteland to a major center for tourism, entertainment, and upscale housing development, Skid Row has become increasingly hemmed in by bustling, populated neighborhoods. This has contributed to a substantial increase in the density of homeless residents living on the streets in Skid Row, since many of the new residents and businesses in the surrounding areas do not want the encampments to spread.

Local [[Homelessness in the United States|homeless]] count estimates have ranged from 3,668 to 8,000.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://abc7.com/society/las-homeless-aerial-tour-of-skid-row-epicenter-of-crisis/5344680/|title=LA's homeless: Aerial view tour of Skid Row, epicenter of crisis|last=Cristi|first=Chris|date=June 13, 2019|work=ABC7}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Rats, trash and typhoid: Los Angeles' growing shantytown slum |url=https://www.news.com.au/news/rats-trash-and-typhoid-los-angeles-growing-shantytown-slum/news-story/fb65b420e775600e10171c7fc592fd2e |work=News.com.au |date=June 4, 2019}}</ref> In 2011, the homeless population estimate for Los Angeles' Skid Row was 4,316.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theycountwillyou.org/Docs/HC11-Detailed-Geography-Report-FINAL.PDF |title=2011 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count (page 38 – Skid Row section) |publisher=[[Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority]] |access-date=2011-11-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425231143/http://www.theycountwillyou.org/Docs/HC11-Detailed-Geography-Report-FINAL.PDF |archive-date=2012-04-25 }}</ref> L.A.'s Skid Row is sometimes called "the Nickel", referring to a section of Fifth Street.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103214505 |title=For Some, L.A.'s Skid Row Is For Beginnings |newspaper=NPR |access-date=2009-09-21}}</ref>

Several of the city's homeless and social-service providers (such as [[Weingart Center Association]], [[Volunteers of America]], [[Frontline Foundation]], [[Midnight Mission]], [[Union Rescue Mission]] and [[Downtown Women's Center]]) are based in Skid Row. Between 2005 and 2007, several local hospitals and suburban law-enforcement agencies were accused by [[Los Angeles Police Department]] and other officials of transporting those homeless people in their care to Skid Row.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.downtownnews.com/articles/2005/10/03/news/news01.txt |title=LA Downtown News Online |publisher=Downtownnews.com |access-date=2009-09-21 }}{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-homeless24mar24,0,2261615.story?coll=la-home-headlines |title=A Plan to Spread Homeless Countywide|newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=2006-03-24 |archive-date=15 June 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060615120210/http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-homeless24mar24,0,2261615.story?coll=la-home-headlines}}</ref>

Within Skid Row, the [[Los Angeles Poverty Department]] (LAPD) is a performance group whose members are mostly homeless or formerly homeless people who create performances and multimedia art that highlight connections between their lived experiences and external forces that impact their lives.

[[Westlake, Los Angeles|Westlake]] and [[Venice, Los Angeles|Venice Beach]] have had issues with street crime and homelessness, and elements of skid rows and red-light districts. As per a 2020 count, there were nearly 2,000 homeless people in Venice of its 41,000 residents in general.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2021-05-25|title=Venice described as 'constant emergency zone' as calls grow for action to address homelessness crisis|url=https://ktla.com/news/local-news/constant-emergency-zone-calls-for-change-mount-as-homeless-encampment-fills-venice-boardwalk-crime-increases/|access-date=2021-06-08|website=KTLA|language=en-US}}</ref> up from 175 in 2014. Many of them lived on Venice Beach on the sand by the shoreline, until a city-ordered sweep done in August 2021. Many people experiencing homeless still reside in inland Venice, more towards Abbott Kinney Road.<ref name="THR 2019-01-11">{{Cite news|last1=Johnson|first1=Scott|last2=Kiefer|first2=Peter|date=2019-01-11|title=LA's Battle for Venice Beach: Homeless Surge Puts Hollywood's Progressive Ideals to the Test|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/las-homeless-surge-puts-hollywoods-progressive-ideals-test-1174599/|access-date=2021-05-15|work=The Hollywood Reporter|language=en-US}}</ref>