LA's infamous Skid Row district

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Not something to be proud of in the city I call home. But this is part of the culture.

The nation’s largest homeless district, skid row spans 50 square blocks of downtown Los Angeles. To enter here is to confront a society that is raw, scavenging, extraordinarily complex.
Images courtesy of LA Times
Photography by Genard Molina.

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:(

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ghurbat is even here in the US - I wish our government would worry more about these kinds of places than foreign shores.

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:k:

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Become communist like Cuba, and voila - no poverty.