Los Angeles is turning to small, vacant lots in its latest effort to generate new housing.
According to UCLA's cityLAB research center, there are an estimated 24,000 empty lots, each measuring less than a quarter of an acre, in areas of L.A. currently zoned for housing.
The city, which owns about 1,000 of these spaces, is planning to sell 10 of them to developers in a pilot program that aims to demonstrate the feasibility of building smaller, lower-cost starter homes on these parcels.
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