The Los Angeles Department of Homeless Services released its 2025 homeless count results, indicating that it is the first time that the number of people experiencing homelessness has declined for the second year in a row.
Photographer Carlin Steel visits the epicenter of Skid Row, a California homelessness issue, and hears what people actually live are saying.
“The immigrants here are kept in front of those who are actually waiting.”
– Rick Wesco
“There are more people this year. People have traveled more to downtown Los Angeles this year.”
– Kala Denise Jordan Nadal
“It’s another summer.”
– Parka to go in red
“They put me in and they brought me back on the street… They housed me, gave me a voucher, they got the voucher back.”
– William Mays, left
From left: William Mays, Jenica Sears, Tina L, and Cecil Morten of Winston Street.
(Carlin Steel/Los Angeles Times)
A man is sitting on the sidewalk on Town Avenue in downtown Los Angeles.
(Carlin Steel/Los Angeles Times)
In February, an estimated 47,413 people living on the streets of the county and 26,972 people in the city saw an annual decline of 9.5% and 7.9%, respectively.
Over the past two years, the county’s unsheltered population has declined by 14% and the city has declined by 17.5%.
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