The spear of efforts to encourage start -up houses on land belonging to the city

The city of Los Angeles is launching a new initiative to encourage the construction of start -up houses on small lots, an effort to provide housing for sale at a lower cost and show how Los Angeles can densify without turning into Manhattan.

The initiative, called a small lot, big impact, started Wednesday with a design competition for architects and others to develop innovative plans for several small houses on a single lot, with the hope that these units will be cheaper than larger options under construction by developers today.

The winning conceptions are supposed to be supposed to serve as pre-approved city models that all developers could use. Government representatives also plan to start selling a handful of small lots belonging to the city to manufacturers to demonstrate – in real life – which is possible with conceptions.

“Angelenos should be able to buy their first house and raise their family in our city,” said the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, in a statement. “The launch of small prizes, large impacts is a step towards this future.”

The initiative is a partnership between the City, the Public-Private La4la and the Citylab Research Center of the UCLA, which revealed that there were about 24,000 vacant lots in Los Angeles smaller than a quarter of an acre where the accommodation is currently authorized. The city has around 1,000 of these lots and plans to sell around 10 as part of its demonstration project.

Today, according to the district, manufacturers in many of this size often build large unified houses or three to five large houses in the row.

Other times, nothing is built, because the high construction costs mean that the developers do not earn enough money unless they combine adjacent land to build a large building of apartments, said Azeen Khanmalek, who previously worked in the mayor’s office and is now executive director of the housing defense group.

The objective of the small lots, large impacts is to provide another option: houses for sale which are smaller and cheaper than a McMansion or a 2,000 square feet town.

“It’s not on the market,” said Citylab director Dan Cuff.

To get there, designers are encouraged to use innovative building materials and methods that would protect from fires and reduce the cost of overall construction.

Officials said such conceptions could help the Pacific Palisades resume after the January hell.

The municipal council must finally approve the plan to sell prizes in the city. For the moment, officials hope to sell them to developers who could use winning architectural conceptions to build houses for sale.

The city would use the batch sales product to finance deposit assistance for house buyers who buy new units.

According to the city’s housing service, any projects are between four and 20 units, with construction heights ranging mainly from one to three floors.

The architects are invited to design several houses on a single batch, but the organizers of the competition want them to do it while giving possible owners to the outside, to natural light and to a “comfortable relationship with neighbors”.

CUFF said that she hoped that the design competition and the subsequent building on the city prizes will show developers that they could earn money by doing the same on land that is now private. She also hopes that this will show to the general public that Los Angeles does not have to count on skyscrapers to grow.

“These projects, I think, will really demonstrate that living together, with a little more households on a site, will be a fairly pleasant arrangement,” said Cuff.