Five years ago, the Orange County Board of Supervisors had plans to build temporary homeless shelters in Laguna Niguel, Irvine , and Huntington Beach. All three cities fought the plan, but the opposition was fiercest in Irvine — where hundreds of Chinese Americans and immigrants mobilized. Similar efforts happened in Arcadia, where Chinese residents opposed the construction of tiny homes.

“This is part of becoming a suburban American; sadly, this is what you assimilate into," said Karthick Ramakrishnan, a professor of political science and public policy at UC Riverside.

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