What is Skid Row (Los Angeles)?
'''Skid Row''' is, in general, an impoverished [[urban]] area with high rates of [[crime]]. It can also be a [[red-light district]]. Recently it has come to mean a particular neighborhood in [[Los Angeles]]. This Skid Row is a poor [[urban]] area with high rates of [[crime]] and drug use and prostitution. The area is officially known as Central City East. It covers fifty city blocks (2.71 sq mi) immediately east of [[downtown]] Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Skid Row has a large population (about 4,200–8,000) of homeless people.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://abc7.com/society/las-homeless-aerial-tour-of-skid-row-epicenter-of-crisis/5344680/|title=LA's homeless: Aerial view tour of Skid Row, epicenter of crisis|last=Cristi|first=Chris|date=June 13, 2019|work=ABC7}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Rats, trash and typhoid: Los Angeles' growing shantytown slum |url=https://www.news.com.au/news/rats-trash-and-typhoid-los-angeles-growing-shantytown-slum/news-story/fb65b420e775600e10171c7fc592fd2e |work=News.com.au |date=June 4, 2019}}</ref> It has been known for its homeless population since at least the 1930s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://la.curbed.com/2017/12/14/16756190/skid-row-homeless-history|title=Why Skid Row—the nation's largest homeless encampment—formed in Downtown LA|last=Meares|first=Hadley|date=December 14, 2017|website=Curbed LA|language=en|access-date=November 6, 2019}}</ref> The question of why this has been tolerated in one of the world's most important cities has itself a long history. The city includes [[Hollywood]], [[Santa Monica]] and other wealthy areas. It has voted [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] in all kinds of elections since the 1980s. == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Shanty towns]] [[Category:Los Angeles]]