"These courtyard houses reflect a balanced-income community. Multiply that into the hundreds of thousands and you get past these gaps that exist between wealthy and other communities.
What blows me away is that the middle class has been left out of the housing solution. That has to change."
After two decades of prioritizing projects that promote affordable housing in Los Angeles, Michael Anderson is working on his most ambitious proposal yet.
The Accelerated Housing and Transit Development is a big-scale neighborhood transformation plan that aims at two of LA’s most vexing problems in 2024: homelessness and gentrification.
The AHTD uses Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) transit-stop improvements as a springboard for expanding 40,000 single-family homes in Black and brown neighborhoods into courtyard-living rental properties.
Anderson says that the plan accomplishes several things at once: improves aesthetics, modernizes infrastructure, creates jobs and, most importantly, dramatically increases housing stock while preserving and growing Black communities by making multigenerational living not just viable, but preferable.
Interested to learn more? Read Erin Aubry Kaplan's interview with Anderson, "Build Black Better."
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