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.

Ave 57 Art Walk Homes, a small-lot subdivision in Highland Park designed by Modative. Photo by Christine Bullard, courtesy of the Courtney+ Kurt Team @ Compass. Our series “This is Home in LA” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...