The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority released the results of the 2025 Annual Homeless Count, showing for the first time a second consecutive year of decline in the number of people experiencing homelessness.
Photographer Carlin Stiehl visited the epicenter of California’s homeless problem, Skid Row, to hear what people actually living unhoused have to say.
“Immigrants here are being housed before the people who are actually waiting.” Rick Wesco
In February, there were an estimated 47,413 people living on the streets in the county and 26,972 in the city, annual declines of 9.5% and 7.9%, respectively.
Over the last two years, the unsheltered population in the county has dropped 14%, and 17.5% in the city…