The Harbor City community Thursday celebrated the placement of modules at Western Landing, a supportive housing community that is expected to bring 80 homes to the area.
Nonprofit affordable housing developer Adobe Communities, residents of Harbor City and Los Angeles City Councilman Tim McOsker Thursday unveiled the homes during an early morning news conference. This project is Adobe Communities’ second to be produced as part of a $40 million HHH Innovation Challenge Award, which the city provided to the nonprofit along with LA Family Housing and Mercy Housing California.
“Western Landing is a great example of how we, as nonprofit developers, can foster innovation and leverage public-private partnerships to ensure our neighbors have healthy, stable housing,” Holly Benson, president & CEO of Abode Communities, said in a statement.
Benson added, “Producing long-term supportive housing is our best move, especially as we see year-over-year increases in the number of people experiencing homelessness.”
According to Adobe Communities, in an effort to reduce the cost and time needed to bring supportive housing online they worked to streamline the site selection, design and financing of project that could be a replicated and scalable development model.
Through this model, five supportive housing developments will bring a total of 400 homes in the city of L.A., including the homes at Western Landing.
A similar site was opened in San Pedro, called Beacon Landing, in Nov. 2022 and welcomed more than 88 residents this year.
“The crisis of our unhoused population is one of the most pressing humanitarian challenges of our time,” McOsker said in a statement.
He stated that modular developments, where buildings are prefrabicated and then assembled on-site, “can more quickly deliver much needed housing for our city.”
McOsker also expressed his gratitude for the public-private partnership with Abode Communities, which he noted will give residents of Western Landing not “just a home, but also life changing supportive services to build a new future.”
Over a decade, L.A. County has lost 200,000 rental homes that rent for less than $1,000 per month. Prop HHH continues to foster new housing opportunities, unlocking millions of dollars of state and federal funding to deliver 10,000 new homes and lifesaving supportive services by 2026.
“Western Landing is fulfilling the promise of HHH,” said Amber Sheikh, CD15 Working Group on Homelessness representative and housing advocate. “Public investment, including HHH, is the necessary first step to remedy a homelessness crisis that had been left to fester and grow for nearly four decades.”
LA Family Housing will provide supportive services to improve health, promote housing stability, and support resident independence. Services will include individual and group therapy, connections to mental and physical health care, employment and education resources and more.
Additional building amenities include a landscaped outdoor space, at-grade parking, onsite property management and resident services, and a community space.
California Dept. of Housing & Community Development’s Housing for a Healthy California and Infill Infrastructure Grant Programs provided $15.5 million for the project. Another $19.7 million in Low Income Housing Tax Credits equity in partnership with equity investor Enterprise Community Partners funded the development and it also received a $36.4 million construction loan and $6.9 million permanent loan in partnership with JPMorgan Chase.
The Housing Authority of the city of Los Angeles also provided $32 million in project-based operating subsidy.
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