Opening the Door.

"This is the first 100-percent low-income, multifamily housing from the ground up in Venice in over 20 years", says Becky Dennison, executive director of Venice Community Housing (VCH), the nonprofit that commissioned and operates the 35-unit, mixed-use structure for a formerly homeless population. Successfully harnessing legislative changes - which made the project possible - VCH worked closely with Los Angeles - based architects Brooks + Scarpa (B+S) to create a building that embraces its residents' needs while also contributing to the surrounding neighborhood. BUILDING TYPE STUDY 1,046 MULTIFAMILY PHOTOGRAPHY BY JEFF DURKIN ROSE APARTMENTS, a building that opened last spring in Los Angeles's Venice neighborhood, is the opposite of bland, monolithic, institutional-looking housing. [Extracted from the article]