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Homeless on Skid Row: the City of fallen Angels

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For a century or more Skid Row has been the refuge for those who cannot fall any lower, the "capital" of homeless in the United States.

AFP

And despite a litany of aid programs, the latest of which was launched Monday, nothing much has changed in the Los Angeles district.
A haggard woman walks down the middle of the street, just avoiding being hit by a car. Men emerge from tents pitched on the sidewalk, some in rags, others pushing carts full of their meagre possessions.
A painted mural sums it up: Skid Row. Population: Too Many. In about 30 city blocks some 2,000 people -- 75 percent of them Afro-American -- live in tents or simply on the street.
The vast majority are alcoholics, drug addicts or physically or mentally handicapped.
Whenever I leave my spot and try to do some work, and I come back, my place has been ripped off. They stole all my tents, said Chesterlas Nelson Jr, a singer who goes by the nickname of the artist.
People right here on Skid Row dont have clean water, dont have a place to go and use the bathroom, dont have a trash can, added General Dogon of the group LA Community Action Network, who himself used to be homeless.
The story of an old woman wandering around in a hospital gown, or a paraplegic left in the dirt on a sidewalk caused a nationwide scandal, and lawsuits against two local hospitals accused of dumping patients on the street.
Theres a paradox in the City of Angels.
We have the most millionaires, the most mansions, but also the most acute poverty in the country, said Gary Blasi, a law professor at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
Homeless on Skid Row: the City of fallen Angels
Homeless on Skid Row: the City of fallen Angels
Homeless on Skid Row: the City of fallen Angels
Homeless on Skid Row: the City of fallen Angels
Homeless on Skid Row: the City of fallen Angels
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