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EL SERENO, CA - NOVEMBER 12, 2024 - - Overwhelmed, Maria Merritt, 58, cries in her El Sereno home before the movers come to take her belongings to a subsidized apartment in the Westlake District on November 12, 2024. "It's breaking me inside," said Merritt. "I feel like a light shining that's going to be shut down," she concluded. Merritt wanted to stay in the neighborhood - and house - where she raised her family and had her best years. But facing eviction from the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles and without a lawyer, she decided instead to accept a buyout to leave. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

A homeless woman struggles to say goodbye to the home she raised her kids in

Nearly five years after seizing a publicly owned, vacant home she used to live in, Maria Merritt is saying goodbye to the community of El Sereno.

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