The building’s prefabricated units will be installed with a crane over three days, creating 13 units of affordable housing for low-income families and transition-age youth.

Part of an apartment in a modular apartment complex is hoisted into place in Santa Monica, CA on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. The nonprofit Community Corporation of Santa Monica with Plant Prefab and ...

Part of an apartment in a modular apartment complex is hoisted into place in Santa Monica, CA on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. The nonprofit Community Corporation of Santa Monica with Plant Prefab and ...

Thrive Living is building a prefabricated apartment building in Chinatown, where it expects the prefab method will cut 15 percent from the construction budget. Thrive, a Los Angeles-based unit of ...