on skid row

idiom

chiefly US, informal
: having no money, job, home, etc., and not able to take care of oneself

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Novak also was an ordained minister who helped out on skid row, in missions and in jails around Los Angeles and in penitentiaries throughout the country for nearly four decades. Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025 Its staff sent email after email to code enforcement and housing officials pressing them to sign off on repairs at the organization’s residential hotels on skid row. Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023 To Raines, the people living on skid row are like family. Angela Yang, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2022 The Los Angeles Homeless Service Authority estimated in 2020 that there are about 4,700 homeless individuals living on skid row — thousands of whom suffer from substance addiction and abuse — though that number could be higher now. Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 5 Dec. 2021

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“On skid row.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/on%20skid%20row. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.

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