A June 18 event in San Pedro marked the debut of Beacon Landing, a new permanent supportive housing development from non-profit developer Abode Communities.
Located just west of the Port of Los Angeles at 319 N. Beacon Street, the project is the first of five modular supportive housing developments that are being built as a result of the City of Los Angeles' $40 million Proposition HHH Housing Challenge, which called for developers to deliver supportive housing faster and at a reduced cost. The four-story building features 90 apartments - including 89 units of supportive housing - as well as parking, a community room, a patio, a laundry facility, and landscaped outdoor space. LA Family Housing will provide on-site supportive services for residents of the housing.
“Now more than ever, rising insurance premiums and financing timelines are significantly hindering our ability to produce the housing we need to get people off the streets,” said Abode Communities president and chief executive officer Holly Benson. “What we’ve delivered here at Beacon establishes a precedent for how nonprofit affordable housing developers can create a path for the way out of the housing and homelessness crisis.”
Interior of Beacon LandingAdrian Tiemens Photography
The $40-million HHH challenge grant, which went to Abode along with Mercy Housing California and LA Family Housing, will eventually go toward projects creating 398 homes. The first two, including Beacon Landing and a similar project now underway in Harbor City, are being developed by Abode.
As Beacon Landing predates the enaction of Executive Directive 1, it instead made use of the city's Qualified Permanent Supportive Housing ordinance, which also provides streamlining benefits. The developers have also leveraged existing funds to secure additional financing and create a more than $6-million fund to cover upfront modular fabrication costs, which sets a precedent for other Measure HHH Challenge projects.
The site sits a short distance to the north of the West Harbor development, now on track to open in 2025, as well as the Rancho San Pedro public housing complex, which is also up for redevelopment with mixed-income housing and commercial uses.
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