Gentrification is latest threat to LA homeless Skid Row is one of America's best known communities of homeless people, where residents struggle for survival while relying on each other for support. Now that developers are eyeing central Los Angeles, the area is seeing an already low supply of affordable housing shrink, and punitive measures aiming to 'clean up' the streets could cause residents to leave the area with little or no place to go. Natural sound AFPTV report.