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Mitchell Landsberg

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Writer, editor, ex-L.A. Times, ex-AP. Sacramento native (Go Giants!) now in SoCal. Opinions expressed here are opinions.
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The real story of how L.A. became the epicenter of America's homeless crisis Original

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By Mitchell Landsberg 
| Los Angeles Times
As a teenager in the late 1970s, Steve Richardson was sweeping and stocking shelves at a toy store on the edge of L.A.’s Skid Row when he noticed the first signs of a monumental change in the city. Day after day, workers, hired from the surrounding streets to unload trucks full of toys, would take the empty boxes and transform them into makeshift shelters where they would spend the night. “They were called cardboard condos,” said Richardson, a Skid Row leader now known as General Dogon.
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Kidnapped by Her Grandparents and Raised on the Run

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By Mitchell Landsberg 
| Los Angeles Times
Times Staff Writer On a steamy August afternoon in 1989, Irene and Raul Lopez packed up a travel trailer, picked up their granddaughter and began driving north out of the Florida Everglades to a new life in hiding. They had been preparing in secret for two months. They had sold their land, a lush tangle of saw grass and holly shaded by ficus trees, for a pittance in cash. They had jettisoned the fiberglass business they built after fleeing Cuba in the early 1960s.
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The pandemic shaped my family for generations. Not COVID — the 1918 flu

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By Mitchell Landsberg 
| Los Angeles Times
A century from now, someone who has not yet been born will come to a haunting realization: Their life was shaped, in ways they may never fully understand, by the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. I know this, because it’s the story of my family. It’s a story with unfathomable twists and turns, great pathos and heroism (not mine). It ends, like so many pandemic stories, with both heartache and humanity.
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