Two Futures For Los Angeles' Skid Row

22 May 2006 - 3:00pm

Los Angeles has to choose between luxury condos or more homeless services for skid row.

"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 to get help with homelessness, drug addiction, mental illness and other troubles."

Source: , May 22, 2006
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So, what can planners do to make best use of the ACS without succumbing to its pitfalls? We need to become more sophisticated communicators of the quality of the data we present, not just its apparent meaning.