Tyrone Tankins, who has lived on Skid Row for the past eight months, asked them to pray for his grandmother, who is sick. In Los Angeles, this means Skid Row, where more than 4,000 of the county’s nearly 53,000 homeless people live, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. “I never imagined that Skid Row would be reality,” she said. One Saturday in August she brought her 8-year-old son, who not only put together bags of food, but also wheeled them on a dolly around Skid Row. The house, Friar Benjamin said, will be a way for people to escape Skid Row, recover from addiction and experience another way of life.