A competition called Small Lots, Big Impacts was created by CityLab-UCLA and the city of Los Angeles to develop innovative housing designs for the city's 24,000 small vacant lots.

But in a new project, the city is working with architects and developers to build prototypes of more affordable homes that make use of small vacant lots scattered throughout the city. L.A. has ...

The initiative, called Small Lots, Big Impacts, kicked off Wednesday with a design competition for architects and others to ...

The city owns about 1,000 vacant lots that could be used to construct new homes. Los Angeles has partnered with cityLAB and LA4LA, a public-private program, on an initiative that includes a design ...

The Small Lots, Big Impacts competition in Los Angeles, which asked architects to develop starter house concepts for vacant lots across the city, has revealed its winners. It seeks to address what ...

Now he wants to build small homes, or “wise-size homes” that would be 1,000 square feet or smaller, not including the garage, with one bedroom and one bathroom, built on smaller lots and ...

Plans are in the works for a 3,550-square-foot clubhouse, close to the road on which the new homes will be built. “We have a fitness center going in, a heated outdoor swimming pool.

The “Homeownership on Small Lots” project, a partnership between the city, TD+ Partners and GonSosa Development, will create six single-family homes and one two-family home across seven ...

Working with Anonymous Architects and Sarah Rosenhaus Interior Design, Mark Arnold built a 975-square-foot house on a very small, steep lot in the Mount Washington neighborhood of Los Angeles ...

In Palm Beach, Minkoff said a 10,000-square-foot lot would only accommodate about a 4,300-square-foot home. Pinsky said he’s heard no design or size complaints about the new homes being built in ...

Architects looked at new ways to divide small lots. Shared Steps, a design from the California-based ... uses a single 50-by-150-foot lot for four two-story houses. Each home has a ground-floor ...