Anthony Gude is Director of Real Estate Development at
Leap of Faith Partners. Leap of Faith was founded in Los Angeles in 2013 and is at the forefront of delivering single family, multifamily and low to mid-rise modular housing in the LA area. They have a focus on providing affordable modular housing and have delivered 200,000 square feet of modular buildings. The team is currently working on a 125-unit multifamily project in Ventura, California with hundreds of units in the pipeline. LA and the State of California experiencing
a major affordable housing shortage, which is only expected to grow over the coming years, Anthony and his team have many more projects to come.
Offsight sat down with Anthony to get his perspective on LA’s role as an epicenter for building modular affordable housing and also how technology can play a crucial role in facilitating faster adoption of offsite construction methods.
Q: Los Angeles has been in the news as being one of most unaffordable cities in America, with an acute and rapidly growing housing shortage. However, LA has also been the location for many state-of-the-art multi-family modular projects. What is LA doing right when it comes to accelerating modular adoption and how can other cities improve their approach to modular housing?