For Developers, Downtown L.A. Is Now ‘Real City’ and Tent City
- Homeless crisis threatens decades of revival, businesses warn
- Big money forges ahead as all decry conditions for unhoused
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Downtown Los Angeles, which overcame decades of neglect to become one of the city’s hottest neighborhoods, risks backsliding as the homeless population begins to burst out of Skid Row, some real estate developers and business owners warn.
They say sprawling homeless encampments threaten residents, workers, visitors and the homeless themselves with hazardous waste, disease and crime and could reverse 20 years of progress.