Multi-Sector Collaboration Saves a Million Gallons for Low-Income Senior Housing Community

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Written By Los Angeles Better Buildings Challenge

LABBC Case Study

PROPERTY OWNER
Retirement Housing Foundation

PROPERTY TYPE
Multifamily

UNITS
183

 

2022 Innovation Awards: Industry Leader, Water Award Winner

During an unprecedented drought in California, MacArthur Park Tower, a low-income senior housing community with 183 units just west of Downtown Los Angeles, has saved more than a million gallons of water and roughly $10,000 in water bills just in the last seven or eight months. Owned and operated by the Retirement Housing Foundation, the property last year had leak detection technology installed as part of a multi-sector initiative led by the California Water Action Collaborative and the Pacific Institute to conserve water in densely populated areas, with sponsors including water efficiency technology provider Sensor Industries and multiple Fortune 500 companies, including Arrowhead Water, Google, Procter & Gamble and Target Corp.

 
 
 
 

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