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Today, what happens when you're moved out of your house for a highway in Los Angeles

and then your neighborhood becomes a ghost town?

We follow the families who are reclaiming these empty homes.

Last year, as the state of California was issuing a statewide mandate to shelter in place

during the COVID pandemic, about a dozen unhoused families began to occupy vacant homes in

El Sereno, in Northeast Los Angeles.

Our producer, Julierocha, is going to pick up this story from here.

We found this house and we were so excited.

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