Daily Mail: Welcome to Skid Row 2017: Shocking scale of homelessness in downtown LA is exposed in footage showing sidewalks lined with dozens of tents in deprived area where 20,000 people live on the streets
* Three-minute LiveLeak clip shows the brutal reality of Christmas Day in the underbelly of Downtown LA
* Shot on 5th Street, 6th Steet and San Pedro in the Skid Row district, it captures life in one of the city's most notorious homeless hotspots
* Rubbish bags litter the streets and tents have been erected to shelter residents - including women and children
* Rising cost of living in California is also forcing middle class residents to live in their cars in affluent areas
Rubbish bags piled up by the pavements and littered across streets.
Tents erected in clusters where people have camped down for the night.
Dozens of directionless residents congregating by the roadside and wandering into the road.
This is what Christmas Day looked like for thousands of homeless people in the dark and dingy underbelly of Downtown Los Angeles this year.
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WNU Editor: This crisis has been years in the making .... very little if any coverage in the news media then. So why all the coverage now?
