By Andrew Blankstein and Cara Mia DiMassa
January 27, 2009
The number of people who died on downtown L.A.'s skid row has declined by 36% in the last four years, according to city records, the latest sign of major changes on what for decades has been the city's epicenter of homelessness and drug-dealing.
Excluding murders and suicides, 60 people died in the skid row area in 2008, according to Los Angeles Police Department statistics. In 2005, there were 94 such deaths. latimes
アメリカはロサンジェルスの記事。路上ホームレスの死亡数が減少している、と。
警官がきて、他のところに連れて行くのだそうです。
おもしろい、ーーーというのが適切かどうかわからないですけどーーー路上生活者の感じが写真でみると日本と似ていますね。
それと、skid rowという言葉。ドヤ街という意味があるんですね。
