Life in Skid Row

An introduction to what it is like living on Skid Row in Los Angeles.

Alongside Skid Row's hustlers, transients, and cops are a lesser known population of children, social servants and religious workers whose daily lives play out on LA's most dangerous city blocks. This is a five part series on YouTube telling their stories.

Here is the rest of the series:

• Part 2: The Kids
• Part 3: Drugs
• Part 4: God
• Part 5: Afterward

Here is a background article if you want to know more and here is Skid Row in Wikipedia. The New York Times has a long article on Skid Row worth reading here.

Some articles on Skid Row by Sam Slovick in LA Weekly

• Miracle on Skid Row
• Tales of the Inner City
• Dying to Escape Skid Row
• Inside the Super Dope Cops
• A description of the facilities that make up Skid Row
• Down on Main Street
  

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