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Because of the seven year injunction to stop construction of I-105 neighborhoods were frozen in transition. Anticipating the end to the court action, in 1980 Caltrans decided not to re-rent houses as they became vacant. Instead, the houses were boarded up, abandoned, and then reclaimed by local gangs. Re-renters who continued to live within the Corridor, like Victwa Shakespeare and her family, had to contend with an unsafe neighborhood.