Success Stories
For over 40 years, SRO Housing has transformed lives in the Skid Row community of downtown Los Angeles. Along the way, tens of thousands of men and women received the keys to new homes. Many had been homeless for years or even decades.
Virginia "Ginger" Reed
"When I thought of myself as a survivor, it also meant I was a victim ... of drugs, alcohol, domestic violence, homelessness, cancer. But I am no longer a victim, and I am no longer ashamed. I am not a survivor. I am a conqueror."
Darrin Brown
"Living homeless is like a punishment. It is worse than prison." "At least in prison you have your 'three hots and cot.' You have a roof over your head, food to eat, a place to shower. When I was homeless, I lived with uncleanliness. There were some days, even some weeks that I didn't take a shower. Sleeping with rats, in alleys, in abandoned cars, in abandoned houses, in parks ... I never want to go back to that."
Daniel Castilleja
"This is my first apartment ever!" An injury forced Daniel to leave his live-in, care-giving job. "I didn't know what to do." He lived in his car and, for a time, slept in the stairwell of an apartment building.
Transforming Lives for40 Years
For over 39 years, SRO Housing has been transforming lives from Skid Row in Los Angeles, CA.
Along the way, tens of thousands of men and women received the keys to new homes.
Many had been homeless for years or even decades.
SRO Housing Corporation has gathered here a moving collection of first-person narratives of lives transformed through housing.
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