Abstract
ABSTRACT: Carlos Casillas, a fifty-year-old renter in Los Angeles, lives in a 150-squarefoot studio apartment in Highland Park, a longtime Latino neighborhood that has been gentrifying. the rent is $1,450 a month. “I had no choice,” he said. “I needed a place to live. So I told myself I gotta work three jobs.” Casillas drives for Uber and Postmates, does construction work, and is a first responder at a mental health center, dispatched by the L.A. Police Department to de-escalate potentially violent situations, most involving homeless persons.
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