Los Angeles is in the midst of a housing crisis

• 54% of Los Angeles City residents are Housing Burdened (30% or more of gross income goes to rent)
• Los Angeles County’s homeless population increased to nearly 60,000 in 2017— a 23 percent increase from 2016
• California is home to more than onefifth of the nation’s homeless people

1 in 5 Community College Students in Los Angeles are Homeless

The Space for Homes

Despite the growing homeless population, skyrocketing costs of housing, and limited development of affordable housing, Los Angeles boasts up to an approximated 8,900 vacant housing parcels.

Vacant Parcels in Zip Code

Vacant Parcels within 5 Miles of a City College

Additional Dwelling Units (ADU)

Recently, California has been supporting the building of ADUs in land zoned for single-family homes to utilize this extra space

• Also known Backyard Homes or Granny Flats
• Recent State Bill SB 1069 changed getting an ADU permit from near impossible to fairly easy
• The city of Los Angeles is piloting an incentive program to build ADUs and house the housing insecure or homeless

Our Backyard Homes is taking advantage of these new policies

By building comparatively low-cost, off-grid, easily portably 1-bedroom homes and offering a 1-year student housing scholarship

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