The Los Angeles Homeless Companies Authority launched the outcomes of the 2025 Annual Homeless Rely, displaying for the primary time a second consecutive 12 months of decline within the variety of folks experiencing homelessness.
Photographer Carlin Stiehl visited the epicenter of California’s homeless drawback, Skid Row, to listen to what folks truly residing unhoused need to say.
“Immigrants listed below are being housed earlier than the people who find themselves truly ready.”
— Rick Wesco
“There are extra folks this 12 months, folks have traveled extra this 12 months into downtown Los Angeles.”
— Kala Denise Jordan Nadal
“It’s a unique summer season.”
— Parker, who goes by Pink
“They put me in they usually put me again out on the road… They housed me, gave me a voucher and took the voucher again.”
— William Mays, left
William Mays, from left, with Jenika Sears, Tina L. and Cecil Moten on Winston Road.
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A person sits on the sidewalk on Towne Ave. in downtown Los Angeles.
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In February, there have been an estimated 47,413 folks residing on the streets within the county and 26,972 within the metropolis, annual declines of 9.5% and seven.9%, respectively.
Over the past two years, the unsheltered inhabitants within the county has dropped 14%, and 17.5% within the metropolis.
