Multifamily Housing Development
Brilliant Corners’ Multifamily Housing Development Team creates housing solutions through new construction, acquisition, preservation, and rehabilitation of underutilized properties that can be rapidly converted to housing.
For more than a decade, Brilliant Corners has joined together with government partners, municipal agencies, nonprofit organizations, and mission-minded architecture and construction firms to develop new multifamily sites and increase access to affordable housing units across the state.
Current and Upcoming Developments
Octavia Court
Octavia Court is Brilliant Corners’ first multifamily supportive housing development. Completed in April 2011, Octavia Court provides dedicated supportive housing in San Francisco for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The building features a day program, community integration, and employment services for people with disabilities, and won a 2012 Builder’s Choice Award.
Learn more about Octavia Court here.
Las Palmas Apartments
Las Palmas Apartments is an adaptive reuse project in the Wilmington neighborhood in the City of Los Angeles that opened in 2024 in partnership with The Richmond Group. Las Palmas Apartments reimagined a formerly vacant grocery store by utilizing the architectural elements in the existing building site and transforming it into dynamic housing. Las Palmas now provides 53 units of permanent supportive housing for people who have experienced homelessness, with onsite case management services provided by Brilliant Corners.
Temple & Alvarado Apartments
Alvarado & Temple Apartments is a Homekey development in the City of Los Angeles that provides 66 apartments—including 64 units for people and families experiencing homelessness. The development comprises two separate buildings retrofitted by Brilliant Corners to provide a welcoming home environment and additional accessible features for residents. The newly renovated buildings feature rooftop gardens and onsite case management offices, where residents receive personalized wrap-around support through intensive case management services provided by Brilliant Corners.
Homekey Harbor City
Homekey Harbor City, a former Motel 6, was transformed into permanent supportive housing through a comprehensive renovation and opened in 2025. Homekey Harbor City provides 50 units—including 49 units for households who have experienced homelessness or are at high risk of experiencing homelessness—and one unit for onsite property management.
A former Project Roomkey site, Homekey Harbor City also includes a community room, laundry facilities, bicycle storage, parking, onsite services and management offices, pet area, and outdoor courtyard for residents.
Toyon Gardens
Toyon Gardens will provide 78 units to the community, with 60 permanent supportive housing units dedicated to people with disabilities, and people and families experiencing homelessness. A former truck storage lot, this 70,017 square foot development will include indoor community spaces, onsite property management and supportive services offices, bicycle parking along with exterior elevated common areas, a pet run and onsite podium parking.
Learn more about the Toyon Gardens development here and in this recent Urbanize LA article.
Blue Elderberry Gardens
Blue Elderberry Gardens is a new affordable housing development in LA County that will bring much-needed supportive and deeply affordable housing to our community. Located in the Florence-Firestone area, this development will provide 81 apartments, including 20 units for people experiencing homelessness, 60 general affordable units, and one two-bedroom for an onsite property manager’s unit.
Blue Elderberry Gardens represents a new partnership between Brilliant Corners and Little Tokyo Service Center.