Weingart Tower is the largest permanent supportive housing development in this history of Los Angeles. A project on behalf of the Weingart Center and Chelsea Investment Corporation, JWDA served as entitlement architect in coordination with architects AXIS Architecture + Design. Weingart Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit agency that provides individuals experiencing homelessness with essential tools necessary to stabilize their lives, secure income, and find permanent housing.

The Weingart Tower is a new build featuring 278 residences in a 19-story structure. The project is specifically designed to provide safe, secure, and dignified housing for unsheltered individuals, and includes 228 studio apartments and 50 one-bedroom apartments, with 40 units reserved specifically for veterans. Each of the apartments is fully furnished and includes full kitchen and bathroom facilities.

Weingart Tower includes amenities including a fitness room, computer lab, career center, library, bicycle storage, laundry facilities, and terraces with community gardens, all part of Weingart Center’s mandate to remove the barriers that keep people from housing, and addresses the needs of seniors, Veterans, women, members of the LGBTQAI+ community, the formerly incarcerated, and many others experiencing homelessness.