Soma Snakeoil is executive director of the Sidewalk Project, which, before COVID, held street parties with music and live painting as a form of harm reduction. Other efforts continue. (Brian van der ...

Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles, home to one of the largest homeless populations in the United States, stretches across 54 blocks. The no-to-low-income community borders some of the more affluent and ...

A bicycle connectivity and pedestrian safety program in Skid Row will benefit from $47.5 million in funding from a state grant, City Councilman Kevin de León announced Wednesday. The funding is the ...

While homelessness continues to ravish this nation, there is at least one group of citizens who refuse to sit idly by without doing their part to put and end to this horrifying cultural epidemic.

Just before Christmas on Skid Row, Carrie Bach looked down a vacant street and saw a blanket that didn’t appear to have anybody under it. As part of a group of Los Angeles County workers helping to ...

Major development projects in the Skid Row area have been coming fast and furious lately. Just a few weeks ago we heard about a Michael Maltzan-designed project from affordable housing developer Skid ...

Three years ago, dominatrix Soma Snakeoil was going to donate her old floggers and dominatrix clothes to sex workers living on the street when she met Russia, a woman in her 50s who was housed in a ...