Video of “Red” and the pictures I gave him

a man shows off the pictures of himself

video I took of San Pedro

I did this from my old phone, so pardon the out of synch and shortness of it. ———–

LAHSA is right about Homeless dumping

LAHSA was asked about the problem of homeless hospital patients being driven to Skid Row, and left there because they have no homes to return to, in a LA TIMES article . Permanent shelter beds, transitional shelters and low income housing – we need so many more of these facilities. We need them for the […]

Lamp Community Murder

Murder at The Lamp Lodge, a part of Lamp Community soon to be shown in “the Soloist”

Tent City in the LA Area

Ontario Tent City is covered by the BBC press – even the rest of ther world knows tha California’s homeless population is growing , but there are few answers to address the situation. Sacramento has a large Tent City and of course, there is Skid Row Los Angeles. More folks are homeless, more houses sit […]

Map of Skid Row

The part of town is called “Central City” on some maps – but I don’t know anyone who doesn’t just call it Skid Row, The Row, or The Nickel.

Pictures from my visit to The Lodge on Skid Row

Sitting on the stoop of “The Lodge”, I see a red truck pull up and something shiny and silver emerges from a cracked down window. A frail, heavily accented Latin voice yells “You wannta a burrito?” as the car pulls to a stop. Suddenly the car is swarmed by grown men and women who want […]

Life on the street – Stanford Ave 90021

Burned to death for being homeless

By R. W. Dellinger Some witnesses say John Robert McGraham tried to run away from his torturer after gasoline was poured over his body and ignited as he sat on the sidewalk the warm evening of Oct. 9. But the 55-year-old homeless man, who had been living on the streets of L.A. for decades, didn’t […]