A California ‘homelessness housing’ design competition has announced winners from some 53 developers who entered a Los Angeles County innovation challenge.
The winners are expected to use their prizes, which range from $500,000 to $1M, to help prove out their business or housing models that will house a limited number homeless individuals or families. The long term fruits of this innovation challenge are hoped to be scalable solutions that can finance and/or reduce the cost of building many thousands homes that will be affordable for people with very low incomes.
The winning ideas include two modular housing designs, one stackable and one floatable(?), a back yard garage renovation business model, as well a two non-profit ‘social good’ investment models. One of those is already a work in progress based on stackable units, and another seeks to revive historically successful Los Angeles bungalow communities.
Read more in the LA Times: Five winning ideas to build housing more quickly and cheaply for L.A.’s homeless community
