Bogey, and the old Red Car trolley line, affordable housing in Los Angeles has typically meant one thing: new houses, most likely built in some previously undeveloped patch of dust and chaparral. There have always been apartments, of course—in particular the midcentury “dingbat” type, hoisted atop thin pilotis—and here and there a smattering of postwar public housing projects. Yet by and large, the area has remained the poster
