GERARDO BRICEÑO,

top, at the Santa Ana home his family managed to buy in the mid-1990s after years of cramped living. His father had sued the city, saying it was trying to drive out Latinos. Center, Jesse Iran Davila Garcia studies in the hallway outside his apartment, which is shared by eight family members. Bottom, Magdalena Garcia eats with husband Edgar Galicia and a friend in the family’s one-bedroom PicoUnion apartment.