Shown are sketches of two types of modern apartment dwellings, which the Los Angeles municipal housing commission proposed to erect in place of the present oldfashioned frame residential buildings in the First and Utah Streets district. Under the plan, the area bounded by Aliso Street, Pleasant Avenue, Mission Road, Bodie Street and Colster Street would be cleared of the old houses and the new apartments erected. The commission seeks $5,000,000 from the federal housing division to finance the project, which is designed to meet the needs of only those residents now living in the old buildings. It is said the project would be self-liquidating through a low rent system. Photo dated: September 27, 1934.
Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, California Public housing--California--Los Angeles Architectural plans Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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