Skid Row in Los Angeles getting worse

LOS ANGELES, California (City News Service) - The federal judge overseeing attempts to resolve the homelessness crisis in L.A. has called an urgent meeting at a Skid Row shelter to discuss worsening conditions and what he considers the city's failure to respond to the recent rainstorm that threatened lives on downtown streets. Combined with the COVID-19 pandemic and soaring mental health and substance abuse issues, homelessness in the region is comparable to “a significant natural disaster in Southern California with no end in sight,'' U.S. District Judge David Carter wrote in an order in federal court. Judge Carter recounted witnessing the impact of the rains on the homeless along Skid Row, “particularly elderly women and victims of mental illness, at least one of whom was naked and suffering from hypothermia,'' he wrote. More