[klyrs]

A better title for this link is "Skid Row, Los Angeles" per the page title.

In the Pacific Northwest there's a longstanding debate about the origin of the term -- afaik both Seattle and Victoria claim primacy of the term, which is originally related to logging. As I understand it, these neighborhoods were first named Skid Row because of the logging, and due to economic realities, the name became associated with poverty and then spread to other towns without significant logging industries.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skid_row