A man sleeps in a park at 6th and Gladys Streets while about 90 people in a "reality check" tour of skid row listen to speeches on May 30, 1984. Sponsored by the Homeless Organizing Team, a coalition of church and social groups, the tour included filthy alleys, soup kitchens, blood plasma banks and detoxification centers and was designed to drum up support for AB2579, by Assemblywoman Maxine Waters, D-L.A., which would allocate $10 million in state money for shelters for the homeless.
Waters, Maxine Homeless persons--California--Los Angeles Homelessness--California--Los Angeles Legislation--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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