Five blocks away from the venue for Vancouver's Olympic opening ceremonies, four grizzled addicts huddle in the rain, injecting themselves with heroin behind a trash bin. Welcome to Downtown Eastside.

A review of government-sponsored prevention centers in Vancouver, Canada, found no increases in drug-related crimes or public nuisance. As part of Homeless Health Care Los Angeles in Skid Row ...

For more than a century, skid row has been a community of last resort. In the early 20th century, it was the area, on the east side of downtown, where the railroad ended, depositing immigrants and ...

Vancouver's "Skid Road" is just a few blocks from the site ... say this is the original "Skid Road" — that's "Road," not "Row" — the place loggers and sailors used to come to burn through ...

Los Angeles’ notorious 54-block downtown Skid Row area is a no-go zone for most people. Just blocks from the city’s financial district, luxury apartments and five-star hotels, it is a ...

A block over, in Little Havana, a bata drums performance draws a crowd. This is Skid Row, Los Angeles, one of the largest and most maligned unhoused communities in a nation full of them.

The state's Encampment Resolution Fund grants from the California Interagency Council on Homelessness will supplement and jumpstart elements of the county's $280 million Skid Row Action Plan -- an ...

Donate now. There are about 2,700 unhoused people living in Skid Row and only three dedicated places where they can sit down in the shade, grab a drink of chilled water and cool down from the ...

Days after booking her dream gig as “acting front person” of Skid Row, Lzzy Hale penned a statement to fans about why the job and the glam metal band means so much to her. “I started ...

Nearly 30 years have passed since Skid Row unceremoniously gave Sebastian Bach the ol’ rattlesnake shake, replacing him with a revolving door of unremarkable frontmen. Now the door has finally ...