by Adina Eaton | Apr 6, 2021
Seattle native Barry Mar was dedicated to providing affordable housing, so in the 1970s he managed the conversion of his family’s Atlas Hotel property in the Chinatown-International District (CID) into low-income apartments. This legacy of Mar, who died last... by Adina Eaton | Dec 30, 2020
A Seattle-based developer is betting big on micro-housing in Los Angeles. Housing Diversity Corporation is filing plans for an eight-story, 227-unit rental project at 1411 South Flower Street in Downtown Los Angeles’ South Park neighborhood, Commercial Observer... by Adina Eaton | Dec 24, 2020
The development would add 230 units in a federally designated opportunity zone BY GREG CORNFIELD With no end in sight to Los Angeles’ affordability crisis, Housing Diversity Corporation is again expanding its micro-housing strategy, Commercial Observer has learned.... by Adina Eaton | Nov 9, 2020
OZ Navigator LLC owns one property at 7324 Martin Luther King Jr. Way S., near Othello Station, which it plans to redevelop with apartments. That eight-story proposal has now been enlarged in scale, from 164 to 273 units, with the pending purchase of a neighboring... by Adina Eaton | Oct 19, 2020
BY JOSEPH PIMENTEL LOS ANGELES LOS ANGELES — When the coronavirus crisis hit, several of Brad Padden’s investors began bombarding him with questions about the viability of micro-housing projects during a pandemic. Padden is the CEO of Housing Diversity Corp., a...