Homelessness Documentary “Skid Row” by Good Magazine
Good Magazine produced a gritty documentary on homelessness in LA.(h/t Jake Bouma)
Good Magazine has several useful resources on homelessness in America:
1) Visualization of homelessness in America
2) Skid Row Part 1 (above)
3) Skid Row Part 2: Kids
4) Skid Row Part 3: Drugs
5) Skid Row Part 4: God
6) Skid Row Part 5: Afterward
Update: I really liked Ariah Fine’s addition over at I Am Not Ashamed. I suggest his third video about compassion and Christianity with Shaun Groves.
Thoughts? Do you have another homelessness documentary thats particularly compelling or persuasive or informative?
3 responses so far ↓
Jake Bouma // February 25, 2008 at 7:27 pm |
Thanks for the h/t, Nathan
Jake Bouma // February 25, 2008 at 7:51 pm |
Oh and BTW, here’s part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=karPGdnqljE
James // February 27, 2008 at 4:00 am |
Around 2002-2003, I lived in WeHo for about a year. I got lost in downtown LA about a week or two after moving there. It was late and I had been at the Mayan partying and living it up. I thought I’d familiarize myself with the area, because I didn’t want to go home just yet, and then I saw it. I was on Skid Row. Admittedly, I was scared. There was a block full of cardboard boxes on the sidewalk and people walking around. I sometimes forget how powerful an experience that was.
Now, I don’t think that Skid Row existing means I need to dedicate my life to end homelessness, nor do I think that my taxes should go up to pay to clean it up. I do however believe we have an income distribution problem in America.
There is probably no solution. Even if we had a better education system, there would always be those who slip through it and still manage to be uneducated.