A man walks past Micah Ray outside the Haskell single-room occupancy hotel in Skid Row in February. Ray, 55, says living in the building is better than a tent but otherwise dismal. (Robert Gauthier / ...

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DTLA - Perception is what comes to mind when I think about living in Skid Row. My perception changes from day to day, moment to moment and situation to situation. I awaken in the early morning in my ...

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 ...

In the mornings, just past 7:30, dozens of children on Skid Row start making their way to school in the June gray. For younger ones, the trip is somewhat easier. A yellow bus pulls up not far from ...

Migrant children Celeste, 5, left, and her brother Dylan, 8, from Columbia, stand in the open door of the car they have been sleeping in with their parents, Jaidelin Chacon and Jose Gregorio Salina, ...

From the courtyard balcony on the 19th story of the new residential tower, Skid Row seems small and distant below. Its barely visible tents and shanties melt into vistas of the downtown skyline and ...