Does Skid Row Need “Tough Love”?
Central City East Association, the Business Improvement District that includes Skid Row, is using a new approach to Skid Row. It’s called “Tough Love.”
They hired an ex-cop to deal with Winston Alley, a backstreet filled with the perils of Skid Row life. CCEA convinced business owners to hire security, paint over graffiti, and remove all the trash. The Downtown News reports that within one week, the alley was clean and the drug dealers moved on.
Tough leadership combined with determined community organizing did the job.
Could this be an L.A.-based model that could be replicated throughout downtown L.A.?
posted by LA's Homeless Blog at
10:55 AM
1 Comments:
Definitely sounds like a tactic to consider, but I'm not familiar with that specific street -- Do you know if there were many homeless people making that street their home? I'm sort of left wondering where the people who hung out there moved on to (was the problem "resolved," or simply moved to a different area?).
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