Market Solution To L.A. Housing? A handful of firms are building shelter for the homeless using private financing.

Grant Housing and Economic Development Corporation (GHEDC) & LOGOS Faith Development LLC have been awarded a $4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to develop Gateway Place, a new veteran supportive housing project in Watts.

LOGOS is thrilled to bring churches the LOGOS-LifeArk model. A modern solution through an alternative approach to development, this model empowers churches to provide their communities with more affordable housing while helping them monetize their land to keep their ministries alive.

“Thank you to LOGOS for bringing us together. Your dedication to serve our community, and to serve our unhoused neighbors, is unmatched.” - Mayor Garcetti.

Bethel is one of dozens of churches that have met with LOGOS seeking to create revenue and housing.

53 unhoused individuals will have an opportunity to live in a residence when the new Bethel Manor Apartments open by 2024. Scores of community leaders attended the groundbreaking ceremony, including Congresswoman Bass, Mayor Garcetti, Councilmember Harris-Dawson; Pastor Martin C. Porter, managing partner of LOGOS, and more.

When Virgil Ward was appointed as the new Pastor of Logan Temple AME Zion Church in September of 2018, he made it his mission to ensure that the historical church would find new ways to serve its local community. Now, Pastor Ward is fulfilling his charge to God and his denomination by building housing for the people.

The Harvest Tabernacle Bible Church site is now answering new prayers, for housing. The original church has been demolished and rising is a new structure that will soon become home to up to 50 Angelenos. Pastor Cook is one of many church leaders in a growing movement to redevelop their property for new purposes and to better serve their community.

LOGOS is a real estate firm that partners with faith-based property owners by working with them to develop or redevelop their underutilized properties. Using real estate solutions, LOGOS empowers landowners to generate new forms of revenue that allow ministries to flourish, communities to be strengthened, and culture within those communities to thrive.

St. Mark Church has sponsored the Prayer and Produce Community Garden to fight food insecurity in South LA. Logos Development has funded the project and committed to assisting with future gardens. Rev. Porter, LOGOS’ Managing Partner, said, “It is our intention to take targeted action that maximizes social impact and opportunity.”

Harvest Tabernacle Bible Church has been central to Pastor Donald Cook II’s life since the day he was born.

Cook's father, Bishop Donald Cook Sr., founded the church in 1976 on the corner of East 55th Street and Holmes Avenue in the city of Vernon, and in 2016, Cook took over the role.

As Southern California’s housing crisis continues to fuel homelessness across the region, a number of churches, particularly Black congregations, are stepping up to build affordable housing on their church land.

From the fourth-floor rooftop patio on East Vernon Avenue, Los Angeles is a 360-degree panorama: to the north, the skyscrapers of downtown; to the south, the Palos Verdes Peninsula; to the west, the Santa Monica Mountains; to the east, snow-capped Mt. Baldy.

With COVID-19 highlighting the need for more affordable housing, local churches are stepping up with the help of LOGOS Development, a firm that has worked for nearly a decade to create an equitable and mission focused development model.

FCC and LOGOS Faith Development aid churches in transforming properties for affordable housing and community gardens