LOS ANGELES, Sept. 23 — A judge’s decision that would have required Los Angeles to offer some form of shelter or housing to the entire homeless population of Skid Row by October was…
Mired in a federal lawsuit highly critical of their botched response to homelessness, Los Angeles officials are getting pushback from critics, who claim the lawmakers’ offer of interim shelter beds and tiny homes…
We, Women In Skid Row, represent a collective of community members, stakeholders and advocates for unhoused people of Skid Row, and we are extremely troubled by the consequences for our community should the Court’s injunction be implemented
A statement from the Downtown Women’s Action Coalition (DWAC) on Judge Carter’s injunction: Judge Carter, in his preliminary injunction (LA Alliance v City of Los Angeles), details a number of the harms and…
In an email dated Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 9:01 AM to Kirkpatrick Tyler, Director of Skid Row Strategy for Mayor Eric Garcetti, Monique Noel wrote: Dear Mr. Tyler, Thank you for connecting…
“Our system is just not fundamentally designed to address the crisis that we were in.” Speaking last week in Skid Row at a hearing on a lawsuit seeking relief for unhoused people in Los…
This morning, we have talked about, talked around, and represented the voice of Black women. Any conversation about Black women must be centered by the actual voice of Black women. Welcome to Skid…
February 1, 2021 Mayor Eric Garcetti: Our community has been abandoned and left to die. In the heart of Downtown LA, just blocks from your City Hall office and the forest of…