Affordable Housing

Cities all over the world pre-determine their architecture – it makes cities beautiful.

The Difference Between Setbacks and Zero Lot Line Why LCI Removes Setback Requirements We have limited space in our city.

The LCI is a framework and a set of tools that allows neighborhoods to create streets with beautiful architecture and an abundance of low-cost, high-quality housing in car-light 15 minute communities. Here are several building blocks:

Links to resources about the ways parking issues thwart the creation of affordable housing.

Collection of links to resources related to housing, building, homelessness, and architecture.

A method of using temporary, low-cost materials such as paint and planters that are quickly installed to implement a new street design cheaply, that can be easily reversed.

The Livable Communities Initiative (LCI) is a plan to build mixed-income and affordable housing that is attainable for all Angelenos.

“Who would want to live without a car?” “LA is a car town.” “No one wants to give up their car.” Answer: more people than you’d think.

By remove parking, delays, red tape, risk, and fees, LA has had two successful real life experiments in how to let the market build affordable housing.

A plan to streamline and cut red tape so small property owners can build small buildings with compact, affordable units in LA that “pencil out.”

What do we want our neighborhoods to look like? What if we got to decide? Can we intentionally design our city? “Standard Plans” offer that opportunity.