Affordable housing is coming to just south of the E Line's right-of-way through Exposition Park, according to an application recently filed with the Los Angeles Department of City Planning.

The project, which would rise from a site at 1252-1258 W. 38th Street, calls for the construction of a new five-story building featuring 76 studio and one-bedroom apartments without on-site parking.

1252 W. 38th StreetHRD Arch.

Requested approvals include citywide housing incentives to permit a larger building than allowed by base zoning rules. Save for a single manager's apartment, all of the units would be reserved for low- and moderate-income renters.

HRD Arch. is designing the project, which is shown in plans as a contemporary podium-type building.

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Albert B. Bitong is listed as both property owner and applicant.

The project is located east of the Rolland Curtis Gardens apartments, as well as several other new multifamily residential developments near Metro's Expo/Vermont Station and the USC campus.

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