Happiness is not the balance of your bank account . . friends come in all income ranges

  

 
  

I swear, one of the few things I find funny about the LAPD . . they make my parking look GOOD!

  

 
sometimes, the view from my car is depressing. 

Homelessness is the White Elephant in Los Angeles.

While the best solution to Homelessness is Housing, it is a topic that gets little attention. If no one thinks about it, talks about it, considers how to successfully address the issue and plans to end Homelessness an end can never be reached.

Recently a local news station and The City of Los Angeles held a forum to explore the topic. My friend, Casey Horan, was a speaker.There is a link posted on the L.A. Times website (click on video link on right side) at:

http://www.latimes.com/homelessinla

  

L.A.Times Articles

This is the link to the series of articles written by Steve Lopez in the LA times about Homelessness in LA.

LAist Interview: Joel John Roberts

from PATH
LAist article
This is a link to his BLOG LA Homeless Blog by Joel

to block the "Voices" , many people wear hadphones and blast music 

This is Tommie, sometimes he gets into my car and says he is comming home with me. I admit it, we have become frineds. 

 

While there are increasing numbers of women on The Row, African American men dominate the population
 

A social worker talking to Marvin on Stanford Avenue 

 

These are the faces of homelessness, hunger, mental illness and addiction.

Adults on Skid Row are some of the hardest people to sympathize with. “Responsible Government funding” seems to focus on children and attempt to prevent the cycle of homelessness but write off the adults who are trapped already.

The people on Skid Row are like any other group, here are some of their faces. 

Home, Home on the Row

On my first day I walked for hours looking for the street called “Skid Row”. There is no one street named “Skid Row”. Skid Row in Los Angeles is a 9 block containment area in the industrial and fish district just south of the tall buildings in downtown Los Angeles.Sometimes I walk from Skid Row (where there are more people in the streets than cars) to downtown where the skies are filled with glass, money, historical architecture and steel. Everything changes as you pass Wall Street. The fact that Los Angeles' "Wall Street" is on Skid Row is an irony that amuses me everyday. The further north you go the more movement you see, in cars, in people, and distance from home to work.

I work for a non-profit agency that provides services to the homeless, poor, and local residents of Skid Row. My goal for this blog is to explain what Skid Row is, how it works, and what changes could eventually successfully eradicate the need for places like Skid Row in modern American cities.