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A small, tightknit 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.AdvertisementHost: Gustavo ArellanoGuest: L.A. Times reporter Jaimie DingMore reading: In an abandoned Koreatown building, homeless Angelenos create a community ‘Gimme Shelter’: The gap in California’s homelessness plan ‘Remember that can easily be you’: Angelenos closest to the homelessness crisis urge compassion
