An overview of the entire LCI plan. A detailed plan to help address LA’s housing crisis. Housing, traffic, and climate are actually intertwined. To solve one, is to solve them all.

We worked with mobility experts from around the world to create a plan with the highest chance of success, with a focus on safety for children, and high quality of life.

What do we want our neighborhoods to look like? What if we got to decide? Can we intentionally design our city? “Standard Plans” offer that opportunity.

A plan to streamline and cut red tape so small property owners can build small buildings with compact, affordable units in LA that “pencil out.”

By remove parking, delays, red tape, risk, and fees, LA has had two successful real life experiments in how to let the market build affordable housing.

“Who would want to live without a car?” “LA is a car town.” “No one wants to give up their car.” Answer: more people than you’d think.

The Livable Communities Initiative (LCI) is a plan to build mixed-income and affordable housing that is attainable for all Angelenos.

California needs to build 3.5 million homes. We also have a climate crisis, air quality crisis, and traffic crisis. The LCI offers a unique solution.

A method of using temporary, low-cost materials such as paint and planters that are quickly installed to implement a new street design cheaply, that can be easily reversed.

By developing civic attributes and placemaking, a public space can go from being the corridor between starting point and destination, to a destination in and of itself.

Choosing a location for housing is one of the most impactful decisions we can make.