Mike Juma sat at the end of the bed in his ninth-floor one-bedroom apartment in downtown Los Angeles, staring at the mountains visible from his window. “I don’t like high-rises,” he said. “But look at ...

Where an empty sidewalk once was, a barbershop has emerged. The line grows four deep, the patrons whiling away the time with a dice game on the pavement. Not far away, a woman sells plastic cups of ...

"We're trying to make our little corner of the world look and feel a little better," says Kevin Murray, president and chief executive of Weingart Center Assn. and mastermind of a Skid Row residential ...

Where an empty sidewalk once was, a barbershop has emerged. The line grows four deep, the patrons whiling away the time with a dice game on the pavement. Not far away, a woman sells plastic cups of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "We're trying to make our little corner of the world look and feel a little better," says Kevin Murray, president and chief ...