2024 Planet Positive Awards > Multifamily > Winner

Blue Oak Landing demonstrates that permanent supportive housing—long-term homes paired with social services—can be built quickly, affordably, and sustainably. On track to be a zero-energy building, this all-electric project was built with modular construction, reducing the construction time by three months and the cost by $1 million. 

Furnished homes sit atop a ground floor filled with services, office space for a behavioral health organization, and an expansive creekside yard with vegetable gardens tended by residents. The “dogtrot” massing encourages natural ventilation, and upper floors are linked with open-air bridge circulation. The broad yard features a series of outdoor rooms characterized by landscaping that enhances permeability, stormwater treatment, and native habitat. The project is set within a generous, permeable native landscape that recharges the creek and surrounding urban wetland ecosystem. 

A rooftop bifacial PV array is predicted to fulfill 70 percent of the building’s energy needs. Solar carports, not yet constructed, will provide the rest, making this one of the first zero-energy permanent supportive housing projects in California.

The modules for this building were fabricated at a factory three miles from the site, where more than 70 percent of the factory’s 400-person workforce are local residents, who took pride in building homes in their community. The factory supports union and “fair chance employment” practices, which involved hiring and training formerly unhoused and incarcerated workers. 

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