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6 months agoEast Bay real estate
An old median near a Los Angeles freeway sat empty for years. Now it's affordable housing
Isla Intersections in South Los Angeles is a new affordable housing development made from repurposed shipping containers.
The complex is designed to minimize ambient traffic noise and features an open space landscaped with vegetation and irrigated by greywater.
The city of Los Angeles awarded leases for underutilized parcels of properties to affordable housing developers, with Holos Communities winning the lease for Isla Intersections for $1 a year. [ more ]