They fought Ellis Act eviction and won. Now they’re alone in the building
Jovita Cuevas comes home every day to her 83-year-old Koreatown apartment building, greeted by the signs of abandonment. She passes overgrown rose bushes lining the driveway, boarded-up bay windows on the first floor, No Trespassing signs and a notice, dated 2017, that the complex is set to be demolished.On the second floor, she walks down a dark hallway to the door with a sliver of light through a crack in the upper right corner. This is where Cuevas, 64, and her son Leonardo, 25, live as the last remaining residents of…