San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan took a tour of Skid Row on February 13, accompanied byEstela Lopez, Central City East Association Executive Director and longtime proponentof gentrification and criminalization of unhoused people. Mahan…
On January 6, 2026, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco came to Skid Row for aphoto opportunity in his campaign for Governor of California. Bianco is a MAGA-alignedRepublican. He has been the elected Sheriff…
On Friday, February 20, LA CAN’s Community Watch team saw a police van full of people drive down Crocker Street and stop near 4th Street. LAPD Central Division Captain Kelly Muniz, Sgt. Helper,…
As we approach this Fourth of July, we return—as we must—to the uncompromising words of Frederick Douglass, who in 1852 asked with righteous fire: “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of…
June 11, 2024 Los Angeles Mayor Karen BassLos Angeles City Hall200 N Spring St.Los Angeles, CA 90012 Dear Mayor Bass, It is a punishing time for poor, unhoused women attempting to survive in…
Freedom Singers add their emotional spin on “Another Day In Paradise” by Phil Collins.
Being houseless is an ongoing crisis in America, but one group of formerly unhoused singers hoped their time on America’s Got Talent would make a difference. Watch AGT Tuesdays at 8/7c on NBC and next day on Peacock. Not…
Ye hits new low with personally delivered hateful message to Black residents in Skid Row: Skid Row Responds Kanyè came to the most economically deprived and abandoned corner of LA to dump his…
LA CAN Freedom Singers join the Kelly Clarkson Show Check out the Arts and Culture page to read more about LA CAN Freedom Singers
As students at Kelly Elementary School in Compton finish up their P.E. class, they race over to their new Skywell Water Dispenser to fill up with cold, clean water.
Sunday, May 1st from 11:00am – 4:00pm @ LA CAN – 838 E. 6th St. Los Angeles, CA The 2022 LA CAN Wellness Retreat for the women of Skid Row and beyond is…
Every fence erected around a park represents LA’s continued failure to house houseless people. Every fence illegally placed on a sidewalk illustrates the “dirty divide,” primed, seemingly sanctioned and assisted by the government.…