Six months after scrapping plans to build a tiny homes campus for homeless residents, Long Beach has put the modular homes up for sale.
Starting this week, the city will take offers through Sept. 4 from organizations, cities and counties interested in buying the units outright. City officials say they hope to finish reviewing proposals — possibly do some site visits, if necessary — through next month and have a buyer selected by October.
The request for proposal comes after the city council voted in February to abandon plans to establish a 33-unit tiny home campus, forcing them to pay back $2.9 million of a $5.6 million state grant they spent on the tiny homes and a citywide search for where to place them…