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  2. Midnight Mission - Wikipedia

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    The Midnight Mission is a human services organization in downtown Los Angeles ' Skid Row. [1] [2] It was founded in 1914. [3] A secular non-profit, [4] [5] the organization provides food, drug and alcohol recovery services, "safe sleep" programs, educational training, a mobile kitchen, and family housing with an emphasis on developing self ...

  3. Skid Row, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    Skid Row is a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles. [1] The area is officially known as Central City East. [2] Skid Row contains one of the largest stable populations of homeless people in the United States, estimated at over 4,400, and has been known for its condensed homeless population since at least the 1930s. [3]

  4. More migrant families with children sleeping in tents on Skid ...

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    Jhon Valencia plays with Thian, 2, with his mother, Katherine Gonzalez, in the back, on Towne Avenue on Los Angeles' Skid Row. ... She said she left the mission voluntarily, at first to stay with ...

  5. Union Rescue Mission - Wikipedia

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    The Union Rescue Mission, commonly abbreviated as the URM, is a Christian homeless shelter in the Skid Row neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It is the oldest in the city [1] and the largest private homeless shelter in the United States. [2] The organization behind the URM is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit that was established in 1891.

  6. LAPD chief says he has 'concerns' about police shooting of ...

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    LAPD Police Chief Michel Moore attends a service at the Los Angeles Mission in April. ... shooting and killing a man who charged at him while holding a plastic fork near Skid Row over the weekend. ...

  7. The end of Skid Row's cheap hotels? L.A. leaders want to ...

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    The city’s redevelopment plan for the dozen Skid Row Housing Trust properties reveals these challenges. At an average of $500,000 per unit, the proposal would cost $428 million and result in a ...

  8. L.A. hotels hire migrants from Skid Row homeless shelter to ...

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    Venezuelan and Colombian migrants living at Union Rescue Mission in L.A. say they are working at Southern California hotels where workers are on strike. L.A. hotels hire migrants from Skid Row ...

  9. Children on Skid Row: Four migrant families form a tenuous ...

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    Arriving from Texas, the four migrant families from Central and South America, with children as young as 2, spent 90 days in the Union Rescue Mission in Skid Row. Then, told they'd have to pay ...