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Los Angeles, CA, Thursday, April 3, 2025 - the Reclaimers, a group of homeless and housing insecure residents who seized vacant, state-owned homes in El Sereno in March 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic are now, more than five years later, facing eviction from their homes. Benito Flores. Flores, 69, has lost his eviction case last month. He is still planning to fight to remain in the home. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

‘I’m going to resist’: Protesters who seized state-owned homes five years ago prepare for eviction battle

Los Angeles County Superior Court judges in recent weeks have ordered three activists who seized vacant, publicly owned homes in 2020 to leave. Some plan to keep resisting eviction.

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