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In the mornings, just past 7:30, dozens of children on Skid Row start making their way to school in the June gray. For younger ones, the trip is somewhat easier. A yellow bus pulls up not far from ...

The biggest homeless housing project so far in the city of Los Angeles celebrated its grand opening on Wednesday, June 19, with elected officials and homeless services providers expressing hope that ...

Where an empty sidewalk once was, a barbershop has emerged. The line grows four deep, the patrons whiling away the time with a dice game on the pavement. Not far away, a woman sells plastic cups of ...

Migrant children Celeste, 5, left, and her brother Dylan, 8, from Columbia, stand in the open door of the car they have been sleeping in with their parents, Jaidelin Chacon and Jose Gregorio Salina, ...