Jordan Downs, the public housing development in Watts, is poised to be transformed into a dramatically different mixed-use, mixed-income complex. The existing 700-unit development will give way to twice as much housing along with a large retail center. Half of the units will be market-rate and affordable housing. The other half will be subsidized. All those who live there now — and there are 2,600 residents — are guaranteed units in the new Jordan Downs as long as they are in good standing. The idea is to have an urban village. But Jordan Downs is already an urban village.
Jordan Downs -- a look inside an evolving urban village
