A man walks past Micah Ray outside the Haskell single-room occupancy hotel in Skid Row in February. Ray, 55, says living in the building is better than a tent but otherwise dismal. (Robert Gauthier / ...

State Sen. Maria Elena Durazo, left, confers with Norelis Vargas, right, from Venezuela, along with Angelica Salas, center, executive director of Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Los Angeles, ...

Striking hospitality workers outside the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown hotel in August 2023. Credit: (Photo by Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)) As of June, 15,000 hospitality ...

One of the most vexing factors contributing to Los Angeles’ homelessness problem is the lack of affordable places for people coming off the streets. Part of the solution is supposed to be housing that ...

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 men ...

A new exhibit showcasing the untold story of Los Angeles County-run quarantine sites is now on at the Skid Row History Museum and Archive. “Welcome to the Covid Hotel,” presented by the Los Angeles ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Los Angeles City Council has designated the King Edward Hotel, a 1906-era Beaux Arts hotel, and its King Eddy Saloon, a bar and former speakeasy in continuous ...

Back in 2007 or 2008, the L.A. Chamber of Commerce released a report on the history of “Skid Row” in Los Angeles. The area of downtown east of the Financial District was described as “a fifty-block ...

Thirty years ago, when the Produce Hotel fell into disrepair, a newly formed nonprofit, the Skid Row Housing Trust, acquired and rehabilitated the turn-of-the-century building, restoring the brick ...

4:33 p.m. Oct. 23, 2023: An earlier verison of this story misspelled Hannah Petersen’s last name as Peterson. When Norelis Vargas heard about housekeeping work at a hotel near Los Angeles ...

When Norelis Vargas heard about housekeeping work at a hotel near Los Angeles International Airport, she did not hesitate to sign up. Vargas, 39, who migrated from Venezuela and entered the U.S. about ...