A homeless community that couldn't last
Two homeless men turned an abandoned building in L.A.'s Koreatown into a full-fledged community. It couldn't last.
Headlines From The Times · Jaimie Ding, Gustavo Arellano, Denise Guerra, Shannon Lin, Kasia Broussalian, Melissa Kaplan, Ashlea Brown, Angel Carreras, Mario Diaz, Kinsee Morlan, Jazmín Aguilera, Shani O. Hilton
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Show Notes
A small, tight-knit community grew inside an abandoned building in L.A.’s Koreatown. The people who found shelter there felt lucky. In a city where unhoused people have to set up encampments wherever they can — in parks, on sidewalks, beneath freeway overpasses — this old building offered a real sense of home.
But the people who lived there knew their community couldn’t last.
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