Pookie Pipes and Butcher Knives: Skid Row Residents Tell Officials They’re Killing People

LOS ANGELES – Inside a locked conference room, the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services and Housing (HSH) held its first quarterly Skid Row Action Plan meeting of 2026. Officials brought slides, statistics and a clear message: the system is working. Skid Row residents couldn’t have disagreed more. Skid Row, formally Central City East, […]