Maria Lerma pulled up to a curb in Boyle Heights, across from a patch of bungalows.
“This is it,” she said. “This. Is. It.”
Lerma moved into a one-bedroom bungalow here with her family in 1958 and stayed. She got married, raised children, and started taking care of her mother as she aged.
“We had everything here,” she said.
Until January. That’s when Lerma and her mother lost their adjacent apartments.
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