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Kadre Architects transforms former run-down LA motel into vibrant housing for homeless families
Kadre Architects

News • News • 11 Sep 2023

Kadre Architects transforms former run-down LA motel into vibrant housing for homeless families

Los Angeles-based Kadre Architects has transformed a run-down motel complex in the San Fernando Valley into a colorful and welcoming residential space for homeless families, especially single mothers. The former Woodland Hills motel now provides one hundred transitional housing units for families who are experiencing homelessness. The project is a collaboration with LA-based charity “Hope the Mission” and Los Angeles County. Kadre Architects “The Woodlands” is part of Project Homekey 2.0, an emergency California-wide initiative in which dilapidated, underused hotels are purchased and rapidly transformed into both interim and permanent housing for people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. (Los... More
A CITY WITHIN A CITY
A NEW GREEN FORUM FOR DOWNTOWN LA
BUILDING A SPACE FOR THE COMMUNITY
CREATING A GARDEN FOR EVERYONE
IN THE MEADOW, ON THE ROOF

Project • By asap/ adam sokol architecture practice • Parks/Gardens

Skid Grow

Our concept for Skid Grow takes a radically different direction, asking how we can reconsider our land use policies to make the best possible use of LA’s vast urban areas to the greatest benefit of all Angelenos, including the unhoused and those needing more support. Our premise is that there is tremendous value inherent in the area currently known as Skid Row, and by seeking to unlock that value we can create significant market rate and affordable housing while also directing unprecedented resources to the benefit of the unhoused. Caption Caption Our vision for Skid Grow includes: 16,500 units of market rate housing, 2,100 units of affordable housing, 8,000 units of supportive housing, and 6,500 shelter beds. This would be... More