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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The track’s closure will mark the end of an era for in the region where drag racing really took off. The National Hot Rod Association was founded in California in 1951 and still has its headquarters just a few miles from Irwindale. At its peak in 1960 there were four drag strips running in L.A. County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/204597974&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/204597974'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is where it started,” says Bob Beck, the drag strip’s announcer. \"This is the area that the enthusiasts and the visionaries came from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beck has spent most of his life involved in the racing world. He even takes his work home with him, hosting race nights on a slot car track he’s built in an upstairs room of his home. In fact, there isn’t a room in his home that doesn’t house some memorabilia from California’s racing history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10517242\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Irwindales-dragstrip-opened-in-2001.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10517242 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Irwindales-dragstrip-opened-in-2001.jpg\" alt=\"Stan Chersky remembers the groundbreaking ceremony at Irwindale back in 2000, and says 'everyone was excited that they finally got another drag strip in L.A.'\" width=\"384\" height=\"772\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stan Chersky remembers the groundbreaking ceremony at Irwindale back in 2000, and says 'everyone was excited that they finally got another drag strip in L.A.' \u003ccite>(Irwindale Speedway)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I meet Vicky Jochimsen and Leslie Saenz waiting in line to race. They’re sitting in a bright red 2013 Mustang GT with “She Devil” emblazoned on the side. They’re about to race an almost identical model car. Jochimsen’s car is a little newer, “so that’s my advantage” she laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jochimsen and Saenz say they’re determined to get as much mileage as they can out of the track, but they still can’t believe it’s closing. Jochimsen says she came to the track because she had too many speeding tickets on the road, and if the track closes down “it would just suck for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also waiting in line is Stan Chersky. He’s brought his blue ’55 Chevy to the track. Like many here, he says he’s concerned that if the track closes, more people will take part in illegal street racing. Chersky remembers the groundbreaking ceremony at Irwindale back in 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone was excited that they finally got another drag strip in L.A.,” he recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As more cars line up to race, Bob Beck watches from the announcers’ box. The track will be open for racing until at least the end of 2015. Beck says he’s worked at other tracks in the area that have since closed down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his house he still has his jacket from the L.A. County Raceway, where he worked for 20 years. Now it's a gravel pit. Other tracks in the area have made way for parking lots, housing developments or storage yards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Irwindale closes, Beck says, \"It’s going to leave a big hole in my life.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In her native country of Nigeria, CY Dieyi is a pop star. But she’s not well known in Los Angeles, where she currently lives. It’s a place where there are many talented musicians, but fame is often elusive. However, for CY, music isn’t necessarily about fame. It’s an expression of her identity, a connection to her roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To many of her friends from back home, CY’s music sounds “a bit too Western.” To counteract that claim, she has made choices in her songwriting to infuse the music with instrumental nuances that will connect to Nigerian culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/203512926\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In two of her popular songs that have played on Nigerian radio, “Puzzle Pieces” and “One Day,” we can hear elaborate background vocals that evoke a tribal chorus and indigenous drums with ethnic cadences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, since coming to America, CY has struggled to hold onto that musical connection to home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My music is supposed to be me,\" CY says. \"It’s supposed to be my thing, and part of who I am is a Nigerian. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In her native country of Nigeria, CY Dieyi is a pop star. But she’s not well known in Los Angeles, where she currently lives. It’s a place where there are many talented musicians, but fame is often elusive. However, for CY, music isn’t necessarily about fame. It’s an expression of her identity, a connection to her roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To many of her friends from back home, CY’s music sounds “a bit too Western.” To counteract that claim, she has made choices in her songwriting to infuse the music with instrumental nuances that will connect to Nigerian culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/203512926&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/203512926'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In two of her popular songs that have played on Nigerian radio, “Puzzle Pieces” and “One Day,” we can hear elaborate background vocals that evoke a tribal chorus and indigenous drums with ethnic cadences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, since coming to America, CY has struggled to hold onto that musical connection to home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My music is supposed to be me,\" CY says. \"It’s supposed to be my thing, and part of who I am is a Nigerian. And if I’m not able to do that in my music then, you know, it’s like, ‘What’s the point?' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10508225\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1103px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CY-Dieyi-from-Facebook.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10508225 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CY-Dieyi-from-Facebook.jpg\" alt='Singer CY is trying to crossover into the United States, while keeping what she calls her \"Nigerian sound.\"' width=\"1103\" height=\"1103\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CY-Dieyi-from-Facebook.jpg 1103w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CY-Dieyi-from-Facebook-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CY-Dieyi-from-Facebook-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CY-Dieyi-from-Facebook-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CY-Dieyi-from-Facebook-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CY-Dieyi-from-Facebook-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CY-Dieyi-from-Facebook-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CY-Dieyi-from-Facebook-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CY-Dieyi-from-Facebook-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1103px) 100vw, 1103px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Singer CY is trying to cross over into the United States, while keeping what she calls her \"Nigerian sound.\" \u003ccite>(Cynthia Dieyi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a conference of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), CY says, she met a Chicago producer who was eager to work with her on a five-song EP. She flew to Chicago, and the first song they worked on together was called “Lazy Girl.” It’s an upbeat pop tune that turned out sounding more like something we might hear on the radio from Rihanna or Beyonce. CY says this particular producer wouldn’t take any of her creativity into account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He wouldn’t leave room for those things that I identify myself with,\" CY explains. So the end result was a version of “Lazy Girl” that was completely stripped of “her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m on the outside looking in,” she says of her reaction to the finished product.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that unsuccessful trip, CY came back to Los Angeles to regroup. Since then, she’s been performing at open mic nights around town and on campus at the University of Southern California, where she’s studying to earn a master’s degree in public relations. She’s continuing to write songs for her EP. Despite initial struggles to maintain her authentic Nigerian sound, she herself has noticed a shift in inspiration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m afraid I might be transitioning away from sounds that are that ethnic, and that bothers me,” CY admits. The song she’s currently working on, “Falling Into You,” explores a universal theme about unrequited love between friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Falling Into You” is noticeably different from her other self-proclaimed “ethnic-sounding” songs, which signals a stylistic departure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As her musicality evolves, CY says she never wants to stop creating. Her next major goal is to complete that EP, regardless of whether she finds a producer who understands her style or has to do it alone. After that, she hopes to partner with a nonprofit in the arts to promote the benefits of music for children and young adults by leading songwriting and performance workshops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, CY wants to hold onto her love of music without compromising herself.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>If the barefooted woman pushing a shopping cart down the sidewalk or the guy brushing his teeth outside a tattered blue tent doesn’t tell you where you are, the enormous \"Welcome to Skid Row\" mural should.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/200650548\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s basically a city-limits sign, typical green with the white trim like ‘now entering such-and-such a place,’ ” explains \u003ca title=\"Jeff Page FB PAGE\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/General-Jeff/106807136010057\">Jeff Page\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then on the left of the sign it says, ‘Population: too many’ because there’s definitely too many people living in this condition like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Page is a Skid Row resident and activist behind a mural project along San Julian Street, a grimy back alley surrounded by homeless encampments, shelters and a host of other homeless services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Page says he’s trying to create a splash of Technicolor in an otherwise bleak environment that many people prefer to ignore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our effort to try to be recognized as a community,” says Page. “That way, people will see it more than just some transitional place for hobos and drug addicts, that we just have people who suffer from poverty.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s spurring this quest for community recognition? Is it a crackdown by the cops? Stricter rules about sidewalk camping? No.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s $9 ice cream cones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a couple blocks from the mural is an upscale ice cream shop called Peddler’s Creamery. It’s the kind of place that embodies the changing face of L.A.’s historic core -- the neighborhood that rubs right up against the hard stubble of Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I stop by the place with Mike Alvirez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s organically grown, sustainably farmed ingredients that he uses in his ice cream by peddling on his bicycle,” says Alvirez, beaming at the site of the Rube Goldberg-esque bicycle-powered ice cream churn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvirez is chief of the \u003ca title=\"SKid Row Housing Trust\" href=\"http://skidrow.org/\">Skid Row Housing Trust\u003c/a>. The nonprofit owns around two dozen buildings, including the New Genesis, also home to Peddler’s Creamery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10498179\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10498179\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-800x494.jpg\" alt=\"Exterior of the New Genesis apartments on the border of Skid Row and L.A.’s rapidly changing Historic Core. \" width=\"800\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-800x494.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-400x247.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-1440x890.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-1180x729.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-768x474.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-320x198.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exterior of the New Genesis apartments on the border of Skid Row and L.A.’s rapidly changing Historic Core. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The top floors of the New Genesis are reserved for low-income housing. And in a controversial move, the Trust created spaces on the ground floor for a couple of retailers that cater to the area’s more affluent newcomers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a double-edged sword. It does obviously create more pressure on homeless folks for those who want to see them get swept away,” says Alvirez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But at the same time I think many of the downtown residents who have chosen to live in downtown, understanding that there is this population in Skid Row, want to see something done about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a lot of homeless people and a lot of desperation packed into one 70-square-block sliver of Skid Row. One thing that’s woefully lacking is low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skid Row has been losing cheap housing for years, as the neighborhood’s old residence hotels and apartment buildings were torn down or transformed into market-rate apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10498180\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10498180 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"HOUSING SK StarApts\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-400x264.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-1440x950.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-1180x779.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-768x507.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-320x211.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exterior of the modular and modernist Star Apartments, built two years ago in the heart of Skid Row\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These days there are a little more than 3,000 low-income housing units in the Skid Row area, and more than double the number of people living on the streets on any given day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one time, that kind of thing would have been enough to scare off the most hardened of urban dwellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not so much anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live in, technically, the boundaries of Skid Row,” says real estate agent Blair Besten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She chose to move to the Skid Row area when she took a job as director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4NDKB_enUS581US581&q=Historic+Core+Business+Improvement+District%20\">Historic Core Business Improvement District, \u003c/a>an organization that represents downtown merchants, developers and residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A great many of them come down here and find out maybe it’s a little bit of an edgier experience than they were expecting,” says Besten of many of the area’s new denizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10498182\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10498182 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-800x526.jpg\" alt=\"HOUSING SK BukKeroWaits\" width=\"800\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-800x526.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-400x263.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-1440x947.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-1180x776.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-768x505.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-320x211.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cultural ‘patron saints’ of Skid Row: Images of Tom Waits, Charles Bukowski and John Fante are stenciled on the wall of an alley behind the New Genesis apartments.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Because we do find ourselves adjunct to Skid Row, and we do have a considerable homeless population here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besten lives in a building on the edge of Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s raising a family there, too. She does worry about the proliferation of sidewalk encampments, which the police essentially ignore. A number of ordinances and court rulings handcuff their ability to seize a person’s belongings. Besten is sympathetic yet frustrated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is someone’s personal property really needs to be defined because five shopping carts filled with garbage and tents and tarps dedicated to one individual probably isn’t making their lives any better,” says Besten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people need to be integrated in their own communities rather than being pushed out of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Navales agrees that other cities need to do more to help the homeless in their own communities. Navales is a community outreach coordinator with the \u003ca title=\"Midnight Mission\" href=\"http://www.midnightmission.org/%20\">Midnight Mission\u003c/a>, one of Skid Row’s oldest and biggest shelters and service providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness doesn’t have any city barriers, and there’s a real need for the services to be regionalized,” says Navales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10498183\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10498183\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-800x569.jpg\" alt=\"A sign on the window of the SRO Housing Corporation in Skid Row\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-800x569.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-400x285.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-1440x1025.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-1180x840.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-768x546.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-320x228.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign on the window of the SRO Housing Corp. in Skid Row \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You can’t have all that down here, it just stresses the system. There’s already a lack of housing, so that’s what you’re facing is a housing crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The affordable housing apartments that currently do exist on Skid Row cannot be converted to market rates. A 2008 ordinance shields them from commercial development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge is adding more affordable housing units to an area that’s becoming one of the hottest real estate markets in town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have allowed this to persist for decades and it’s shameful,” says Alvirez. “It should have never gotten to this point. We can’t solve it unless we own it. This is our problem that we have to fix.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With competition for any slice of available real estate looking only to get fiercer, and homeless services slowly expanding in other places, Los Angeles could be facing what once seemed unimaginable: the gradual shrinking of Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It’s the kind of place that embodies the changing face of L.A.’s historic core -- the neighborhood that rubs right up against the hard stubble of Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I stop by the place with Mike Alvirez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s organically grown, sustainably farmed ingredients that he uses in his ice cream by peddling on his bicycle,” says Alvirez, beaming at the site of the Rube Goldberg-esque bicycle-powered ice cream churn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvirez is chief of the \u003ca title=\"SKid Row Housing Trust\" href=\"http://skidrow.org/\">Skid Row Housing Trust\u003c/a>. The nonprofit owns around two dozen buildings, including the New Genesis, also home to Peddler’s Creamery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10498179\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10498179\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-800x494.jpg\" alt=\"Exterior of the New Genesis apartments on the border of Skid Row and L.A.’s rapidly changing Historic Core. \" width=\"800\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-800x494.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-400x247.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-1440x890.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-1180x729.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-768x474.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-320x198.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exterior of the New Genesis apartments on the border of Skid Row and L.A.’s rapidly changing Historic Core. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The top floors of the New Genesis are reserved for low-income housing. And in a controversial move, the Trust created spaces on the ground floor for a couple of retailers that cater to the area’s more affluent newcomers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a double-edged sword. It does obviously create more pressure on homeless folks for those who want to see them get swept away,” says Alvirez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But at the same time I think many of the downtown residents who have chosen to live in downtown, understanding that there is this population in Skid Row, want to see something done about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a lot of homeless people and a lot of desperation packed into one 70-square-block sliver of Skid Row. One thing that’s woefully lacking is low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skid Row has been losing cheap housing for years, as the neighborhood’s old residence hotels and apartment buildings were torn down or transformed into market-rate apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10498180\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10498180 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"HOUSING SK StarApts\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-400x264.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-1440x950.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-1180x779.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-768x507.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-320x211.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exterior of the modular and modernist Star Apartments, built two years ago in the heart of Skid Row\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These days there are a little more than 3,000 low-income housing units in the Skid Row area, and more than double the number of people living on the streets on any given day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one time, that kind of thing would have been enough to scare off the most hardened of urban dwellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not so much anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live in, technically, the boundaries of Skid Row,” says real estate agent Blair Besten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She chose to move to the Skid Row area when she took a job as director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4NDKB_enUS581US581&q=Historic+Core+Business+Improvement+District%20\">Historic Core Business Improvement District, \u003c/a>an organization that represents downtown merchants, developers and residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A great many of them come down here and find out maybe it’s a little bit of an edgier experience than they were expecting,” says Besten of many of the area’s new denizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10498182\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10498182 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-800x526.jpg\" alt=\"HOUSING SK BukKeroWaits\" width=\"800\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-800x526.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-400x263.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-1440x947.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-1180x776.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-768x505.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-320x211.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cultural ‘patron saints’ of Skid Row: Images of Tom Waits, Charles Bukowski and John Fante are stenciled on the wall of an alley behind the New Genesis apartments.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Because we do find ourselves adjunct to Skid Row, and we do have a considerable homeless population here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besten lives in a building on the edge of Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s raising a family there, too. She does worry about the proliferation of sidewalk encampments, which the police essentially ignore. A number of ordinances and court rulings handcuff their ability to seize a person’s belongings. Besten is sympathetic yet frustrated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is someone’s personal property really needs to be defined because five shopping carts filled with garbage and tents and tarps dedicated to one individual probably isn’t making their lives any better,” says Besten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people need to be integrated in their own communities rather than being pushed out of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Navales agrees that other cities need to do more to help the homeless in their own communities. Navales is a community outreach coordinator with the \u003ca title=\"Midnight Mission\" href=\"http://www.midnightmission.org/%20\">Midnight Mission\u003c/a>, one of Skid Row’s oldest and biggest shelters and service providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness doesn’t have any city barriers, and there’s a real need for the services to be regionalized,” says Navales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10498183\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10498183\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-800x569.jpg\" alt=\"A sign on the window of the SRO Housing Corporation in Skid Row\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-800x569.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-400x285.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-1440x1025.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-1180x840.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-768x546.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-320x228.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign on the window of the SRO Housing Corp. in Skid Row \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You can’t have all that down here, it just stresses the system. There’s already a lack of housing, so that’s what you’re facing is a housing crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The affordable housing apartments that currently do exist on Skid Row cannot be converted to market rates. A 2008 ordinance shields them from commercial development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge is adding more affordable housing units to an area that’s becoming one of the hottest real estate markets in town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have allowed this to persist for decades and it’s shameful,” says Alvirez. “It should have never gotten to this point. We can’t solve it unless we own it. This is our problem that we have to fix.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Skid Row can feel like a chaotic airport terminal -- people carting their possessions down the street and jaywalking in front of speeding cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s always someone yelling or screaming, and there's often the howl of sirens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 60,000 homeless people live in the city of Los Angeles. But you might never know it until you start motoring south, past Disney Concert Hall, past City Hall, Pershing Square and newly renovated million-dollar condos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when you’ll begin the slow descent into Skid Row, arguably the largest concentration of homeless people in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/199499800\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By some estimates, there are several thousand people living on the streets of Skid Row on any given night. Many are camped out in tents and other makeshift shelters on the sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sidewalk at the intersection of San Pedro and Sixth, right outside the Midnight Mission, is jammed with tents, blue tarps and shopping carts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at it, that sidewalk is completely impassable to regular foot traffic. Every one of these tents really is a violation of the law,” says Ryan Navales, standing outside the entrance of the mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Navales landed on Skid Row several years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was a strung-out, homeless heroin addict with few options left but determined to get clean. He signed up for a rehab program at the Midnight Mission. He got sober. And he got work doing public relations for the 100-year-old shelter, rehab center and soup kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480650\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480650\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-800x466.jpg\" alt=\"A Skid Row sidewalk encampment at the southern edge of Skid Row, home to the city’s warehouse and art district. \" width=\"800\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-800x466.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-400x233.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-1440x839.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-1180x688.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-768x448.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-320x187.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Skid Row sidewalk encampment at the southern edge of Skid Row, home to the city’s warehouse and art district. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We serve sometimes approaching 3,000 meals a day. So everybody comes down here. It used to be just a bunch of old drunken white guys,” Navales says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the 1970s after the Vietnam War, it really changed demographically to different races and lots more drugs. But it’s still all the same services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is where it’s all centered,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s no accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. developed a policy decades ago to purposely funnel the homeless away from downtown and other parts of the city and into a roughly 70-square block semi-industrial strip filled with residential hotels, fruit-packing warehouses and garment factories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the homeless population swelled, so did the number of places to help them out. These days Skid Row is a constellation of shelters, food pantries and drug clinics, all in the midst of what can often feel like a combination open-air asylum and drug market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480657\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480657\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-800x515.jpg\" alt=\"An unidentified passed out on the sidewalk of a Skid Row back street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-400x258.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-1440x928.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-1180x760.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-768x495.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-320x206.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An unidentified passed out on the sidewalk of a Skid Row back street. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I mean, it’s hard to come down here and save people and get them into recovery when we can go right across to that tent and somebody is shooting dope because that’s what I would do,” Navales says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a shelter around the corner, Carol Oakman says she was nearly blinded after being assaulted on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was beaten by two women,\" Oakman says. \"The thieving, the racketeering, narcotics distribution, you name it, all of it. All of it happens right down here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been plenty of efforts to “clean up” Skid Row. One of the latest under former Los Angeles Police Chief Bill Bratton gave cops the authority to break up encampments and confiscate belongings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cluttered sidewalks, they argued, made it tougher to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal court judge blocked the policy. The sidewalk encampments came back and so did the tension between police and residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day they hassle someone in their tent, every day,” Kelly Kunta says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Skid Row resident is among those still boiling over last month’s police-involved shooting death of an unarmed Cameroonian immigrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480659\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480659\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A street memorial still stands outside the Union Rescue for the 43-year-old homeless Cameroonian immigrant shot and killed by LAPD officers during a scuffle on March 1, 2015. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-320x240.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A street memorial still stands outside the Union Rescue for the 43-year-old homeless Cameroonian immigrant shot and killed by LAPD officers during a scuffle on March 1, 2015. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 43-year-old homeless man was shot after fighting with LAPD cops outside a tent. He allegedly grabbed an officer’s revolver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The police got nothing better to do. There all kinds of crimes going on in this country and they hassle a man and many of these nationalities down here (living in) a tent,” said Kunta during a recent protest at the site of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Montez heard the gunshots that morning, too. He stays in a shelter just down the block. Montez sides with the cops on this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hands over a creased, homemade business card; \"Minister Gary Montez, Law Enforcement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montez earns a little cash as an on-call security guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Law enforcement is always going to be wrong when people don’t want to respect commands, and when they’re hyped up on drugs,” Montez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outdoor encampments presents one of Skid Row’s biggest conundrums: bring down the tents or, says Navales, essentially endorse the seedy sprawl of sidewalk camping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look, there will always be people who live on the fringes of society and need assistance. That’s just the way it is,” Navales says. “But should we help enable that by legislating opportunities for people to live on the sidewalks as if that’s the ultimate goal?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s definitely \u003cem>not\u003c/em> a solution, says Joe Parra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After falling on hard times, he lived out of a tent for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s from the Torrance area just south of L.A. He’d never set foot on Skid Row until a couple years ago after falling on hard times. A friend let him pitch a tent in his backyard at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He saw what I was going through and he goes, 'Hey, let me talk to my wife. That way you’re not exposed to ruffians and such.' And I said, 'Man, that’d be great,' ” Parra says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His voice trails off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sorry, sorry,” he says, choking back emotion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480661\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480661\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-800x565.jpg\" alt=\"There are thousands of people living in Skid Row shelters and on the street on any given day\" width=\"800\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-800x565.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-400x282.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-1440x1016.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-1180x833.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-768x542.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-320x226.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are thousands of people living in Skid Row shelters and on the street on any given day \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parra wants to forget those days. Now he lives in a small but modern studio flat at the Star Apartments, a newly built supportive housing complex on Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we speak, Parra had just gotten back from a yoga session downstairs in the courtyard. He pauses to put an old acoustic guitar and a backpack in his apartment. He walks back out into the sunlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parra was among the first residents at the Star Apartments..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get here took patience and perseverance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only hope is for those who have enough self-confidence and care for themselves enough to lift themselves up,” Parra says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of just setting a tent down on the sidewalk saying, ‘This is my home from now on,' they should only look at it as temporary until you get another rung higher on the ladder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With its sunny courtyards, community garden and yoga classes, the Star is pretty high up on that ladder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many homeless advocates say more housing like the Star is the best hope for Skid Row. But the quest to build more is running right up against a new wave of upscale downtown development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have a marketing scheme to have people to buy into this newer and shinier up-and-coming downtown Los Angeles,” says Skid Row activist and resident-general Jeff Page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, we want new and shiny in Skid Row, too!”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sidewalk at the intersection of San Pedro and Sixth, right outside the Midnight Mission, is jammed with tents, blue tarps and shopping carts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at it, that sidewalk is completely impassable to regular foot traffic. Every one of these tents really is a violation of the law,” says Ryan Navales, standing outside the entrance of the mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Navales landed on Skid Row several years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was a strung-out, homeless heroin addict with few options left but determined to get clean. He signed up for a rehab program at the Midnight Mission. He got sober. And he got work doing public relations for the 100-year-old shelter, rehab center and soup kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480650\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480650\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-800x466.jpg\" alt=\"A Skid Row sidewalk encampment at the southern edge of Skid Row, home to the city’s warehouse and art district. \" width=\"800\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-800x466.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-400x233.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-1440x839.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-1180x688.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-768x448.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-320x187.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Skid Row sidewalk encampment at the southern edge of Skid Row, home to the city’s warehouse and art district. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We serve sometimes approaching 3,000 meals a day. So everybody comes down here. It used to be just a bunch of old drunken white guys,” Navales says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the 1970s after the Vietnam War, it really changed demographically to different races and lots more drugs. But it’s still all the same services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is where it’s all centered,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s no accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. developed a policy decades ago to purposely funnel the homeless away from downtown and other parts of the city and into a roughly 70-square block semi-industrial strip filled with residential hotels, fruit-packing warehouses and garment factories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the homeless population swelled, so did the number of places to help them out. These days Skid Row is a constellation of shelters, food pantries and drug clinics, all in the midst of what can often feel like a combination open-air asylum and drug market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480657\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480657\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-800x515.jpg\" alt=\"An unidentified passed out on the sidewalk of a Skid Row back street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-400x258.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-1440x928.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-1180x760.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-768x495.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-320x206.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An unidentified passed out on the sidewalk of a Skid Row back street. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I mean, it’s hard to come down here and save people and get them into recovery when we can go right across to that tent and somebody is shooting dope because that’s what I would do,” Navales says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a shelter around the corner, Carol Oakman says she was nearly blinded after being assaulted on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was beaten by two women,\" Oakman says. \"The thieving, the racketeering, narcotics distribution, you name it, all of it. All of it happens right down here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been plenty of efforts to “clean up” Skid Row. One of the latest under former Los Angeles Police Chief Bill Bratton gave cops the authority to break up encampments and confiscate belongings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cluttered sidewalks, they argued, made it tougher to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal court judge blocked the policy. The sidewalk encampments came back and so did the tension between police and residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day they hassle someone in their tent, every day,” Kelly Kunta says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Skid Row resident is among those still boiling over last month’s police-involved shooting death of an unarmed Cameroonian immigrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480659\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480659\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A street memorial still stands outside the Union Rescue for the 43-year-old homeless Cameroonian immigrant shot and killed by LAPD officers during a scuffle on March 1, 2015. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-320x240.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A street memorial still stands outside the Union Rescue for the 43-year-old homeless Cameroonian immigrant shot and killed by LAPD officers during a scuffle on March 1, 2015. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 43-year-old homeless man was shot after fighting with LAPD cops outside a tent. He allegedly grabbed an officer’s revolver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The police got nothing better to do. There all kinds of crimes going on in this country and they hassle a man and many of these nationalities down here (living in) a tent,” said Kunta during a recent protest at the site of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Montez heard the gunshots that morning, too. He stays in a shelter just down the block. Montez sides with the cops on this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hands over a creased, homemade business card; \"Minister Gary Montez, Law Enforcement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montez earns a little cash as an on-call security guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Law enforcement is always going to be wrong when people don’t want to respect commands, and when they’re hyped up on drugs,” Montez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outdoor encampments presents one of Skid Row’s biggest conundrums: bring down the tents or, says Navales, essentially endorse the seedy sprawl of sidewalk camping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look, there will always be people who live on the fringes of society and need assistance. That’s just the way it is,” Navales says. “But should we help enable that by legislating opportunities for people to live on the sidewalks as if that’s the ultimate goal?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s definitely \u003cem>not\u003c/em> a solution, says Joe Parra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After falling on hard times, he lived out of a tent for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s from the Torrance area just south of L.A. He’d never set foot on Skid Row until a couple years ago after falling on hard times. A friend let him pitch a tent in his backyard at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He saw what I was going through and he goes, 'Hey, let me talk to my wife. That way you’re not exposed to ruffians and such.' And I said, 'Man, that’d be great,' ” Parra says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His voice trails off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sorry, sorry,” he says, choking back emotion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480661\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480661\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-800x565.jpg\" alt=\"There are thousands of people living in Skid Row shelters and on the street on any given day\" width=\"800\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-800x565.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-400x282.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-1440x1016.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-1180x833.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-768x542.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-320x226.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are thousands of people living in Skid Row shelters and on the street on any given day \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parra wants to forget those days. Now he lives in a small but modern studio flat at the Star Apartments, a newly built supportive housing complex on Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we speak, Parra had just gotten back from a yoga session downstairs in the courtyard. He pauses to put an old acoustic guitar and a backpack in his apartment. He walks back out into the sunlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parra was among the first residents at the Star Apartments..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get here took patience and perseverance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only hope is for those who have enough self-confidence and care for themselves enough to lift themselves up,” Parra says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of just setting a tent down on the sidewalk saying, ‘This is my home from now on,' they should only look at it as temporary until you get another rung higher on the ladder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With its sunny courtyards, community garden and yoga classes, the Star is pretty high up on that ladder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many homeless advocates say more housing like the Star is the best hope for Skid Row. 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"content": "\u003cp>Saeed Ghaemmaghami gets up early. While it’s still dark out, he sits at his kitchen table, sips tea, and smokes his first cigarette of the day. By 6 a.m., he’s at a nearby recording studio in the San Fernando Valley. He takes a seat in front of his microphone, flips a few switches on the control panel and begins another episode of Radio Sedaye Mardom, Farsi for \"The People’s Voice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghaemmaghami greets his audience. “This is Los Angeles, California, in the United States of America,” he says. “This is Sedaye Mardom Radio. I am hoping that all of you are doing well and have started a new day, a new night and a good evening wherever you are in this world. 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For his safety, Bardia doesn’t give his last name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s one of the major sources of information in Iran,” says Ghaemmaghami.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has been many times in middle of the action in the street, in a very, very dangerous situation, close to our government arrest him, but he insists to continue his relationship with me and our radio.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through a translator, Bardia explains why he risks his life to report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This government throws acid on our faces when we come to the streets,” he says. “The only thing that I can do is to get my voice out there, through the radio, and let the world know that this government is not my representative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bardia’s information is critical because of Iran’s heavily censored media, according to Majid, who calls in from Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was my only connection to other protesters who were thinking like me,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Majid doesn’t give his last name because he was involved in anti-government activity. Two years ago, he had to flee Iran. 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"content": "\u003cp>Sun Nin Fai Lok! Chúc Mừng Năm Mới! Sae Hae Bok Mani Ba Deu Se Yo!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Happy New Year! We are now in lunar year 4713 -- the Year of the Wood Sheep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/193448761\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asian-American communities throughout California have annual celebrations to usher in the new year. 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