EditorialShirley Raines, founder of the nonprofit Beauty 2 the Streetz, in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles, June 10, 2023. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)
EditorialShirley Raines, founder of the nonprofit Beauty 2 the Streetz, in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles, June 10, 2023. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)
EditorialShirley Raines, founder of the nonprofit Beauty 2 the Streetz, in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles, June 10, 2023. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)
EditorialShirley Raines, founder of the nonprofit Beauty 2 the Streetz, in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles, June 10, 2023. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)
EditorialShirley Raines, founder of the nonprofit Beauty 2 the Streetz, in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles, June 10, 2023. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)
EditorialShirley Raines, founder of the nonprofit Beauty 2 the Streetz, in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles, June 10, 2023. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)
EditorialShirley Raines, founder of the nonprofit Beauty 2 the Streetz, in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles, June 10, 2023. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)
EditorialShirley Raines, founder of the nonprofit Beauty 2 the Streetz, in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles, June 10, 2023. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)
EditorialShirley Raines, founder of the nonprofit Beauty 2 the Streetz, in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles, June 10, 2023. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)
EditorialShirley Raines, founder of the nonprofit Beauty 2 the Streetz, in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles, June 10, 2023. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)
EditorialA member of the nonprofit Sidewalk Project passes out clean needles, Narcan, water, clothing, snacks and other supplies in the Skid Row neighborhood of Los Angeles, Aug. 15, 2022. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times)
EditorialHomelessness and illicit drug use have been persistent, intertwined issues in the Skid Row neighborhood of Los Angeles. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times)
EditorialA young visitor at the controls of a skid steer truck navigates a course at Diggerland USA, a construction-themed amusement park in Berlin Township, N.J., Aug. 8, 2022. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)
EditorialPeople use a skid steer loader to remove mud and debris from a street in downtown Fleming-Neon, Ky., Aug. 2, 2022. (Jon Cherry/The New York Times)
EditorialPart of the water-filtration system at Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, including a reverse osmosis skid, on July 30, 2021. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
EditorialAn overflow tent hospital is set up behind the Union Rescue Mission shelter on Skid Row in Los Angeles, Jan. 10, 2021. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)
EditorialKimora Lee Simmons and all 5 of her children arrive to safely serve a Thanksgiving feast to residents of Skid Row Housing Trust's Star Apartments
EditorialModel of a Ladder, Model of a ladder that can be used in three ways: as a single ladder, extended and as a skid-ladder. The extendable part, which must be extended by hand, has a wheel at the top of each leg. Two catches prevent it from sliding back. A...