Editing Skid row (section)

== Mexico ==
[[Puerto Vallarta, Mexico]]'s "romantic area" by its boardwalks has issues of homelessness, vagrancy, open drug abuse, fighting, and public violence.<ref>{{cite web|title=An alarming increase in homeless people in Puerto Vallarta's romantic area is worrisome|url=https://mexicodailypost.com/2021/11/19/an-alarming-increase-in-homeless-people-in-puerto-vallarta-romantic-area-worrisome/|publisher=Mexico Daily Post|date=November 19, 2021}}</ref> [[Mexico]] as a country struggles with poverty and migrants to the U.S. often end up homeless or near the Mexican border awaiting arrival. Elements of skid row and [[shantytowns]] may exist along the [[U.S.-Mexican border]] with awaiting migrants. While specific "skid rows" are not thoroughly documented in articles, at least mainly in English, [[crystal meth]] is often shipped in from [[Ciudad Juarez]] and [[Tijuana, Baja California]], both border cities. Both cities also have issues of meth consumption as well as other drugs, and homelessness and poverty are rampant in some districts.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Color of Meth: Is it Related to Adverse Health Outcomes? An Exploratory Study in Tijuana, Mexico|publisher=[[NCBI]]|author= Dr. Steffanie A. Strathdee; Patricia Case, Remedios Lozada, Andrea Mantsios, Jorge Alvelais, Minya Pu, Dr. Kimberly C. Brouwer, Dr. Cari L. Miller, and Dr. Thomas L. Patterson|journal=The American Journal on Addictions|date=September 19, 2011|volume=17|issue=2|pages=111–115|doi=10.1080/10550490701862944|pmid=18393053|pmc=3176304}}</ref>

According to a 2018 article by [[KPBS Public Media]] (KPBS), with the [[BBC World Service]], Tijuana has 1,800 people who are described as "living on the streets".<ref name="kpbs 2018"/> It is uncertain whether this figure includes those in homeless shelters or sleeping in vehicles. This number is less than half a percent of Tijuana's population, and far fewer than the 9,160 homeless individuals in neighboring [[San Diego County, California]]. However, the count in Tijuana does not include thousands of people who live in makeshift homes on canyons, often without running water or electricity.<ref name="kpbs 2018"/> The academic research institute, [[El Colegio de la Frontera Norte]], concluded in 2014 that nearly half of people experiencing homeless in Tijuana are deportees from the US, based on their surveys of a specific shelter.<ref name="kpbs 2018">{{cite news |last1=Guerrero |first1=Jean |title=Displaced By Two Countries: Tijuana's Homeless Migrants |url=https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2018/03/28/displaced-two-countries-tijuanas-homeless-migrants |work=KPBS Public Media |others=In association with [[BBC World Service]] |date=28 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211227143757/https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2018/03/28/displaced-two-countries-tijuanas-homeless-migrants |archive-date=27 December 2021 |language=en}}</ref> Violent crime in Tijuana reached unprecedented levels in 2017, with 1,780 murders in Greater Tijuana, a rate of more than 100 per 100,000 people.<ref>{{cite news |last1=St John |first1=Alison |last2=Cabrera |first2=Marissa |title=Report: Tijuana Homicides Reach Record High In 2017 |url=https://www.kpbs.org/news/2018/feb/06/report-tijuana-homicides-reach-record-high-2017/ |work=KPBS Public Media |others=In association with [[BBC World Service]] |date=6 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211227143810/https://www.kpbs.org/news/2018/feb/06/report-tijuana-homicides-reach-record-high-2017/ |archive-date=27 December 2021 |language=en}}</ref>