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A low-cost housing complex for formerly homeless residents that comprises stacked shipping containers and sits on a triangular site near a busy highway interchange that was formerly a traffic median, has been completed in Los Angeles by architecture studio LOHA. Isla Intersections is built on one of many city-owned parcels made available by the City of Los Angeles in 2018 to developers of affordable housing. The complex contains 54 supportive housing units. Each apartment comes furnished and offers a bedroom, kitchen, living room, dining space and bathroom. The project incorporates rooftop farms and edible gardens intended to supply produce for farmers' markets. Along the western elevation, the building is lower in height to blend with a walkway that winds along the street which will provide a number of storefront spaces for retail, incubation and job training and support services, as well as administrative offices.