The Los Angeles Safer Cities Initiative was launched in the city in late 2006 by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. The Initiative was primarily designed to remove homeless and mentally ill citizens from the segregated 50 by 5 block streets of Los Angeles, known nationally as Skid Row. Ultimately, the SCI violated the civil rights of these citizens and failed to fulfill its obligations and responsibilities. Since the City of Los Angeles started this initiative, the city then became responsible for these people, as if they were the “parents” of these homeless “children.” You can't kick a homeless person off the street, they're homeless. So where do they go if they are not allowed out on the streets? Where do the mentally ill go if there are no psychiatric institutions, or clinics, or even medications? Food service providers in the area can only provide a limited amount of food for a limited number of people. Where do hungry people go if there are only a tiny number of these service providers? The Safer Cities Initiative and the city of Los Angeles have failed to take responsibility. Skid Row is a 50-block neighborhood east of historic downtown and the high-rise Bunker Hill neighborhood. It is surrounded by 3rd Street to the north, 7th Street to the south, Main Street to the west, and Alameda Street to the east. Skid Row dates back to the mid-1880s-1890s when the railroads were built and where they ended. The large agricultural fields to the east of the city center quickly gave way to more industrial uses, which then attracted a predominantly male population who came on trains to find employment on the railways or in industries agricultural workers mainly passing through. This atmosphere gave rise to small hotels, transitional living spaces at the time, which now ...... middle of paper ...... and benefits advocacy, and in 1987, we didn't see not that they had started serving both men and women and were shortened. its name at LAMP. during the first years of the operation, it was quickly realized that in addition to needing assistance and basic needs, mentally ill people needed a safe and nurturing environment to live in, which then put them on a mission to acquire more property and expand their services to the mentally ill. In 1988, Lamp obtained the property that would become Lamp Village, a 25,000-square-foot former warehouse transformed into a center for life skills workshops, case movements and advocacy services. With furnished residences comprising 48 beds, with private bathrooms and kitchens, it was the first permanent supportive housing in Los Angeles County. Becoming a primary factor in supportive housing has become Lamp's primary goal