“Skid Row Resilience and the Preservation of Cultural Knowledge Among People Experiencing Homelessness"

FAIN: PN-295894-24

Los Angeles Poverty Department (Los Angeles, CA 90026-0190)
Henriette Brouwers (Project Director: May 2023 to present)

The collection of oral histories, photographs, and objects to create a digital and physical archive of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Los Angeles’ Skid Row community, especially the unhoused and housing insecure.

The Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) respectfully requests $150,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities for “Skid Row Resilience and the Preservation of Cultural Knowledge Among People Experiencing Homelessness.” Deeply rooted in Skid Row across a 38-year history of documentation and artmaking in collaboration with community members, LAPD’s core mission is to give voice to and strengthen the Skid Row neighborhood. Our project’s goal is to foster the resilience of the Skid Row community by collecting and preserving lived experiences related to innovative strategies that helped alleviate the devastation of the public health crisis inflicted by Covid 19 on this highly vulnerable population. These will be digitally available and housed at LAPD’s Skid Row History Museum & Archive (SRHMA).