Two LA City Council members motion to replace encampment cleanups

The motion would offer services including trash and bulk item pick-ups, create designated areas for trash and waste to be placed for disposal and removal, provide easy-ups or shade structures to help homeless people temporarily relocate during cleanups, provide mobile showers, bathrooms, and hire homeless people to keep areas tidy between cleanings.

Planned concert prompts superspreader fears

A Northern California Christian worship musician is scheduled to hold a big concert on Skid Row Wednesday night, and local leaders fear it will become a superspreader event.

Homeless man struck with pipe and left for dead

Los Angeles: Homicide Detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department's Central Division are asking for the public's help in providing any information that would lead to the identification of the suspects responsible for killing 59-year-old Gustavo Zeledon, a person experiencing homelessness in the skid row area.

Angel Cop

A police officer known for empowering works in one of the nation's worst areas for the homeless is now telling his story in a book.

HUD Secretary Ben Carson visits LA's Skid Row

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson attended a series of events Tuesday in Los Angeles to discuss homelessness in the city and county. FOX 11's Elex Michaelson reports.

LAPD's 'RESET' program struggles to get homeless off the streets

It?s known as 'The Box'. Skid Row City Limits...a place just blocks from City Hall where more than 17,000 homeless people live on the streets in a square-shaped area just east of Main Street, south of third, west of Alameda and north of Seventh Street.