From a car windshield flying across an overpass, the new housing development in South Los Angeles may look like a freight-load of cargo: shipping containers, stacked four- and five-high like giant Legos, appear randomly arrayed near one of California's largest and busiest freeway interchanges.
In 2018, the city of Los Angeles, which has the nation's largest homeless population, awarded leases for some of its more than 1,700 underutilized parcels of properties to affordable housing developers. Nonprofit Holos Communities won the competitive solicitation process to develop the 20,000-square-foot site and was granted a 99-year lease for $1 a year.
At a cost of around $38 million, Isla Intersections is one of a number of projects across the nation making use of surplus public property for affordable housing. In some cases, projects are mixing such housing into existing municipal amenities, or creating new ones, such as parks, libraries, fire s
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