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In Los Angeles, a friendship grows out of housing strife

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Eduardo Jarquin, 58, pays $900 for the studio apartment he shares with his 23-year-old son and a roommate. Jarquin said that since a massive real estate investment firm bought his crumbling, neoclassical building in 2020, the new owners have been pressuring rent-controlled tenants to move out. In another building owned by the same investment firm, Sam Trinh, 28, walks out his door to another kind of change in the neighborhood: In the fall, signs went up in front of his building in English and Spanish, declaring in capital letters that  NO PERSON SHALL SIT, LIE, SLEEP.

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In Los Angeles, a friendship grows out of housing strife

Once divided by gentrification, an immigrant janitor and a millennial executive now count on each other as renters battling corporate landlords in LA.

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In Los Angeles, a Friendship Grows Out of Housing Strife

Once divided by gentrification, an immigrant janitor and a millennial executive now count on each other as renters battling corporate landlords. They are members of the largest tenants union in the country.

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Capital & Main broke the news in on Tuesday, March 21, 2023.
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