LA Times: "L.A. has more than 20,000 vacant lots. They could help solve the city’s housing crisis"

From the article

"It is perhaps one of the biggest contradictions of Los Angeles’ housing crisis.

How can a city where homes are in such short supply and financially out of reach for so many have more than 20,000 lots that are zoned for housing but remain vacant?

It’s been a long-missed opportunity, but one that some housing experts hope could now create a fresh wave of attainable homeownership.

A newly launched novel experiment aims to demonstrate how these vacant lots, while small, can be transformed into thoughtfully designed “gentle density” housing — such as duplexes, fourplexes and townhome communities — to be sold at more reasonable prices than L.A.’s long-venerated single-family home......"

- Grace Toohey, LA Times