[weegee]

Located an easy walk from City Hall, police headquarters and other downtown seats of power, this last stop for the destitute has been a fixture of Los Angeles for nearly a century.

If a fire had ravaged their community as the flood did New Orleans, would we be hearing about the widespread 'racism' that led to such a structured society?

[Dr. Scarpetta]

[Carry_Okie]

Located an easy walk from City Hall, police headquarters and other downtown seats of power, this last stop for the destitute has been a fixture of Los Angeles for nearly a century.

But with a burgeoning real estate market bringing luxury apartments and condos to the edge of Skid Row, city leaders are torn between letting gentrification roll over the area or trying to make it a more hospitable environment for people to get help with homelessness, drug addiction, mental illness and other troubles.

Absolutely! Let's dedicate the city's best developable real estate to keeping the bureaucracy's best customers close to where their handlers work! Cut's traffic that way ;-)

Besides, we wouldn't want profitable taxpaying business to have such prime turf, would we?