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Hamilton helped raise money in 1987 for skid row’s Midnight Mission, joining in a benefit performance of Studs Terkel’s “Hard Times” at the Los Angeles Theatre Center.

“On the Bowery,” the director Lionel Rogosin’s classic portrait of life on skid row, is not only a time capsule of a bygone New York, but also of a bygone form of documentary filmmaking.

Faced with a desperate financial situation, one of the largest owners of affordable housing on skid row is trying to transfer all its buildings.

The rapper spends nine days living among the dangerous and the destitute of skid row for his new documentary.

In February, The Los Angeles Times reported that sanitation crews demolished an unofficial community-resource center in the city’s skid row in what officials called a regular cleanup.