ShelterX

Housing infrastructure for a changing Los Angeles.

ShelterX is a Los Angeles real estate development company focused on infill, affordable, modular, and community-serving housing. We combine development, construction craft, and innovative financing to deliver housing faster and more efficiently across Southern California.

The ShelterX Vision: Developing for Diversity in Los Angeles

Housing shapes opportunity, stability, and belonging. ShelterX develops with diversity at the center so that people of different incomes, ages, abilities, backgrounds, and life transitions experience permanence.

Modular Construction, Made Meaningful

Modularity is not a style—it is a disciplined delivery method. Factory precision compresses build timelines by 30% to 40% and drastically minimizes on-site disturbance in dense Los Angeles infill neighborhoods.

Featured Los Angeles Housing Developments

  • 5933 Comey Ave

    Location: Culver City · Helms Art District | Scale: 5 units | Type: Market-rate · Built to rent

    Five market-rate, built-to-rent residences in the desirable Helms Art District—designed for renters who want a considered home base near Culver City’s creative energy.

  • Evergreen at Comey

    Location: Los Angeles · Transit-Oriented Community | Scale: 43 units | Type: 100% affordable · Modular construction

    A 43-unit, 100% affordable modular community designed for speed to market and a more useful everyday residential experience—helping address California’s 5,000-home housing supply gap.

  • Harbor City Safe Place

    Location: Harbor City · Supportive residential care | Scale: 30 units | Type: Behavioral health · Transitional housing · RTC

    A 30-unit behavioral-health, transitional-housing, and residential-treatment concept centered on safety and security as people find solid ground and a road to recovery.

  • 1329 Eastern Ave TAY

    Location: East Los Angeles · Near higher education | Scale: 8 units | Type: Transition-age youth · TIC pathway

    Eight homes for youth transitioning out of foster care, located near Cal State LA, ELAC, and LATTC, with a community-garden amenity and a planned path to homeownership through a TIC model.

Leadership & Proven Construction Track Record

Io Sunwoo — Founder & Principal: Bringing over 20 years of commercial construction, modular manufacturing leadership, and Southern California real estate development experience.

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Email: info@shelterx.org