A Community Based Approach to Public Safety & Wellness.
Skid Row People’s Market is a neighborhood grocery shop responding to structural racism and criminalization of poverty by creating access to healthy food and equitable jobs, while uplifting the creative spirit.
Creating Access to Healthy Food
Our market combines the convenience store business model with grassroots community organizing. We are responding to food apartheid and the lack of healthy food outlets in Skid Row by strengthening local partnerships and fostering community reinvestment practices to support long lasting regenerative economies.
Equitable Labor & Building Workers Power
We are removing structural barriers to employment, improving working conditions, increasing wages and building a safe and supportive work environment. We practice collective input in decision-making, discover skills and gifts, and accountability to one another. As a small business, we demonstrate a human-centered and human-scale enterprise, creating social and economic justice – thinking globally, acting locally.
The Fight for Public Life & Place
In Ray Oldenburg’s The Great Good Place, third places or great good places are the heart of a community’s social vitality and the grassroots of a democracy. Since 1992, we have fought and struggled to preserve public life from gentrification, redlining and mass banishment through family preservation and building networks of mutual aid and support.
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453 S San Pedro St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Hours (modified)
Monday–Friday
8:00am–6:00pm
Email
skidrowpeoplesmarket@gmail.com