Beautiful social housing in Los Angeles is trying to change the lives of its residents and the way communities feel about them.
Skid Row Housing Trust
By
Emily Badger
Sometimes when Theresa Hwang is visiting a project site, maybe the 102-unit Michael Maltzan apartments rising from the corner of East 6th Street and Maple Avenue on the edge of downtown Los Angeles, pedestrians will stop and gawk and inquire about what’s coming.
"What are you building?" they invariably want to know.