All proceeds will be donated to help the Skid Row community. This season, one beauty brand is giving back in big, beautiful way. Laura Geller Beauty has found a way to collaborate with homeless women ...
Holiday shopping can be about so much more than just the act of giving a gift to a loved one, it can also give back, that’s the implicit message from a downtown LA non-profit that helps homeless women ...
On Skid Row, women only have a handful of options if they need a place to sleep. The Union Rescue Mission is regularly packed with women on cots set up wherever space can be found. The Los Angeles ...
Women battling homelessness while pregnant may have a much harder time finding shelter, advocates say. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) After the deaths this month of two newborn babies on Skid Row, ...
Some 1,975 people on Skid Row were moved into interim housing and another 990 people found permanent housing as a result of a state grant, Los Angeles County officials announced Monday. In 2023, the ...
Mike Juma welcomes a guest to his home at the Weingart Center in downtown Los Angeles. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) Mike Juma sat at the end of the bed in his ninth-floor one-bedroom apartment ...
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - The Downtown Women’s Action Coalition has just completed a survey looking at the state of homeless women on Skid Row. The report found that about 40% of the women stated they ...
Where an empty sidewalk once was, a barbershop has emerged. The line grows four deep, the patrons whiling away the time with a dice game on the pavement. Not far away, a woman sells plastic cups of ...