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 Bibliography - Additional Sources 

Reese, Ellen, et al. “‘Weak-Center’ Gentrification and the Contradictions of Containment: Deconcentrating Poverty in Downtown Los Angeles.” Wiley Online Library, 1 June 2010, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2010.00900.x.

- This is a case study published by three researchers: Reese, Deverteuil, and Thach that was published in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research and can be accessed via the Wiley Online Library. It is accessible through Stanford Libraries and is extremely informative on de concentration strategies in Downtown Los Angeles prior to 2010. This is a great reliable resource for providing context on some ways in which the unhoused community of Skid Row was been displaced, and what effect this has had on its population.

Vitale, Alex S. “The Safer Cities Initiative and the Removal of the Homeless.” Criminology & Public Policy, vol. 9, no. 4, 2010, pp. 867–873, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9133.2010.00677.x.

- This source is accessible via the Stanford Libraries database and the Wiley Online Library. The paper was published by the Criminology & Public Policy Journal and was written by researcher Alex S. Vitale in 2010 in the Department of Sociology at Brooklyn College. This paper outlines how policy and funding has been redirected but the Safer Cities Initiative (SCI) into strategies that were ineffective in reducing the unhoused population in positive ways. The information provided in this paper could be incredibly important to adding more context into some of the sections of this Wikipedia Article. From what I researched, it is a reliable source.

Smith, Doug. “Rand Survey Finds Homelessness up 18% in L.A. Hot Spots Where the Official Count Recorded Decreases.” Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023, https://www.proquest.com/latimes/docview/2769621851/D902886F72474933PQ/1?accountid=14026. Accessed 19 May 2023

- This Los Angeles Times article is a great resource for bringing into the conversation how the unhoused population of Skid Row has actually increased, not decreased over the past few years. Smith's LA Times article can help add a general idea of statistics on the current population of Skid Row, especially since it is challenging to find an accurate number. However, this is not as reliable as the previous sources provided due to the lack of peer reviewed resources, findings, and statistics. Still, it would be a good source to start off on to learn some background on Skid Row.