2025 California Green Building Awards
Merit in Innovation
This particular project built private-public partnerships to implement an innovative water-saving technology in affordable housing, helping to improve affordability and water resilience for low-income residents. The focus was a simple but widespread source of water waste - toilet leaks.
In 2023, the project team deployed an Internet-of-Things (IoT) toilet leak detection technology in eight affordable multifamily properties across Los Angeles. Since then, the project has reduced water demand by 11% across the property portfolio, saving over 4 million gallons of water per year and reducing the affordable housing provider’s water bills by an estimated $97,200 per year.