A home on the street
A man sorts through his possessions on Skid Row, an area of downtown Los Angeles with the greatest concentration of homelessness in the city.
According to a survey coordinated by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, 4,316 people living there in 2011 were homeless – a figure that made up almost one in three of the neighbourhood’s residents.
LAPD Sergeant Mark Wright makes notes as a man pushes his belongings past on downtown Los Angeles' Skid Row.
Darryl Owens, 56, stands in front of his tent in the neighbourhood.
Three Skid Row residents stand by their possessions.
A man walks past his belongings, which are covered with yellow tarpaulin.
LAPD Sergeant Aloaf Walker looks to see if anyone is asleep inside a tent.
People walk by one of the Skid Row tents.
A man pops his head out of his tent after waking up.
A group of workers distributing food to the homeless wear surgical masks and gloves.
A woman peers out of her tent as she wakes up.
A woman walks past homeless people's possessions piled up on the sidewalk.
A woman sits on the ground with her legs stretched out.
Diane Merritt, 62, stands next to her belongings on Skid Row, where she has lived for three years.
A woman looks down at her pile of possessions.
Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, Jr., subject of the movie "The Soloist", plays guitar.
A woman wakes up in the run-down neighbourhood.
A man smokes a cigarette as he sits wrapped in a blanket.
