{"id":422820,"date":"2026-08-03T17:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/422820\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T17:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:17:14","slug":"construction-goes-vertical-for-affordable-housing-at-1540-court-st-in-echo-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/422820\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction goes vertical for affordable housing at 1540 Court St. in Echo Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly one year since starting work Glendale Boulevard in, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/weve-officially-begun-going-vertical-on-ugcPost-7481384589450702848-Om28\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAAoxdCMBNKnjm4TIPtoG5l9tFLL-3hz6DMU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">construction has gone vertical<\/a> for a new affordable housing complex from <a href=\"https:\/\/la.urbanize.city\/tags\/visionary-development\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Visionary Developments<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/la.urbanize.city\/neighborhood\/echo-park\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Echo Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Court Residences, <a href=\"https:\/\/la.urbanize.city\/post\/construction-launches-affordable-housing-complex-1540-w-court-st-echo-park\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">located at 1540 Court Street<\/a>, will eventually consist of a seven-story building featuring 189 studio, one-, and two-bedroom apartments for low- and middle-income households without on-site parking.<\/p>\n<p>Project approvals include development incentives permitting a larger structure than otherwise allowed by zoning rules in the exchange for the provision of affordable housing. The project also benefited from streamlined approvals via the Mayor&#8217;s Executive Directive 1, according to an approval letter issued by the Planning Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"image-and-caption\">\n<a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"https:\/\/la.urbanize.city\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1140w\/public\/2025-08\/1540%20w%20court%20street%20map.jpg?itok=CemASNrU\" rel=\"article-image-set nofollow noopener\" title=\"Google Maps\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"image-950w article-inline-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1540 w court street map.jpg\" width=\"950\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n1540 W. Court StreetGoogle Maps<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/la.urbanize.city\/tags\/kevin-tsai-architecture\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Tsai Architecture<\/a> is designing the project, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jzarch.la\/project\/court-st-apartments\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JZA Architecture<\/a> is serving as executive architect.<\/p>\n<p>The same project team is attached to a number of similar affordable housing developments in the Echo Park area, including <a href=\"https:\/\/la.urbanize.city\/post\/affordable-housing-slated-site-1275-sunset-blvd-echo-park\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a recently-proposed apartment complex at 1275 Sunset Boulevard.<\/a> Visionary Developments currently has 580 total homes in the planning stages.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on social media:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UrbanizeLA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/urbanizela\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/showcase\/urbanize-la\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@urbanizela\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Threads<\/a> \/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/urbanizela\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Instagram<\/a> \/<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/urbanizela.bsky.social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Bluesky<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/la.urbanize.city\/neighborhood\/echo-park\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Echo Park<\/a> (Urbanize LA)<\/p>\n<p>Looking for affordable housing? Visit<a href=\"https:\/\/lahousing.lacity.org\/aahr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> lahousing.lacity.org\/aahr<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/housing.lacounty.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">housing.lacounty.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/la.urbanize.city\/post\/here-are-californias-affordable-housing-income-limits-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California&#8217;s 2026 state income limits<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/urbanize.la\/post\/affordable-housing-resources\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for additional affordable housing resources<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly one year since starting work Glendale Boulevard in, construction has gone vertical for a new affordable housing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-422820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}