Carlos Parra, 45, stays warm with a fire he built inside a grocery cart near a tarp on a sidewalk on skid row. “I’m not getting well and I don’t know if I’m going to make it,” he said. The storm is a bearable inconvenience, says Reynaldo Roman, 39, who is cooking a pot of beans next to his makeshift home on skid row. Colbert said that he would consider going to a shelter but not on downtown’s skid row where so many homeless services are concentrated. Kitty Davis-Walker, a spokesperson for Union Rescue Mission, a skid row homeless shelter, said that it has received 47 calls from families needing shelter since Monday.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 26, 2023 00:48 UTC