The State keeps sex workers isolated from each other by making it a crime to gather, share housing, advertise together, or watch each other’s backs.

The Figueroa corridor initiative is designed to help the young women and girls who perform sex work in the area find opportunities and get them off the streets, Estrada said.

Demonstrators gathered in South Los Angeles’ Vermont-Knolls neighborhood on Saturday to call for 12 motels along the Figueroa Corridor between Gage and Century to be turned into safe and ...