SoLa Impact and Model/Z were honored to welcome the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Scott Turner, to our Model-Z modular factory located in Watts, CA. ? We had a series of productive conversations with the HUD Secretary about responding to the LA fires, catalyzing affordable housing supply, supporting the Section8 program, and the priorities of the new HUD leadership.? We greatly appreciate the partnerships with LA Mayor Karen Bass, LA City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson; Lourdes Castro Ramirez, CEO of HACLA;? Emilio Salas PHM CME, Executive Director of Los Angeles County Development Authority; Tiena Johnson Hall, General Manager of the Los Angeles Housing Department (LAHD), Deborah La Franchi, CEO of SDS Capital Group, and Pastor Martin P., CEO of Logos Development who were also in attendance.? We collectively agree that LA must produce dramatically more housing of all types, but particularly affordable and workforce housing, and HUD is a vital resource to enable Los Angeles to rebuild after the recent fires.?
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The full video of Secretary Turner’s public remarks are available at: https://lnkd.in/gDAMD6Qw
We were proud to be able to showcase the work of Model/Z, which has been able to scale to produce 2.5 units per day in under nine months. Once the factory is running at full capacity, it will be creating over 5,000 units/year of affordable housing for Los Angeles. Our mission is to? help drive innovative and cost-effect solutions to California’s and the nation’s housing and homelessness crisis.?
With Los Angeles’ homelessness crisis further exacerbated by the recent wildfires, collaboration between the public, philanthropic, and private sectors is more critical than ever. By leveraging innovative solutions like modular construction, we can accelerate the development of high-quality, affordable and workforce housing to meet the urgent needs of Angelenos.
We look forward to our continued partnership with HUD to drive scalable, impactful housing solutions – starting in Los Angeles and expanding nationally.
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