A prefabricated apartment building for low-income families opens in Santa Monica
Community Corporation of Santa Monica, a nonprofit that focuses on affordable housing, on Thursday, Feb. 20, hosted a “modular installation party” for a 13-unit apartment dubbed Berkeley Station and aimed at low-income families and transition-aged youth.
“Berkeley Station is an innovative and exciting breakthrough for affordable housing in Santa Monica,” said Tara Barauskas, executive director of Community Corporation. “This development is a critical step in providing at-risk youth and low-income families with dignified housing and a path to a better future.”
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 Howard CDM, for Berkeley Station, is building Santa Monica’s first modular affordable housing building. 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. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
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 Howard CDM, for Berkeley Station, is building Santa Monica’s first modular affordable housing building. 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. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
A worker connects a section of a modular apartment complex in Santa Monica, CA on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. The nonprofit Community Corporation of Santa Monica with Plant Prefab and Howard CDM, for Berkeley Station, is building Santa Monica’s first modular affordable housing building. 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. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
A rendering of the finished modular apartment complex being built in Santa Monica, CA on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. The nonprofit Community Corporation of Santa Monica with Plant Prefab and Howard CDM, for Berkeley Station, is building Santa Monica’s first modular affordable housing building. 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. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
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 Howard CDM, for Berkeley Station, is building Santa Monica’s first modular affordable housing building. 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. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
A crane in position to add a section 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 Howard CDM, for Berkeley Station, is building Santa Monica’s first modular affordable housing building. 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. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
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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 Howard CDM, for Berkeley Station, is building Santa Monica’s first modular affordable housing building. 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. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
The prefabricated living units were built in the Plant Prefab factory in Tejon Ranch, and were taken to a narrow lot in Santa Monica. The project is expected to be completed in October, “six months ahead of the traditional site construction timeline,” according to Community Corporation.
Santa Monica Mayor Lana Negrete said in prepared statement, “Solving the housing crisis will require innovation, ingenuity, and flexibility, and Berkeley Station is an example of all three. Santa Monica families will soon have beautiful, new sustainable, comfortable, affordable homes here, and we’ll have a new model for what affordable housing can be. That’s what today is all about.”
The project will have a community garden, a rooftop deck, solar panels, laundry facilities, a courtyard, and a community room. The all-electric building will meet LEED Gold standards and will include Energy Star appliances.
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