South Los Angeles, as a community, is ideally located just south of downtown Los Angeles, at the center of the city with convenient access to all transportation routes, the west side, the beaches, the South Bay, and Hollywood. With an affordable supply of early 20th-century housing stock and commercial strips filled with affordable, obsolete retail and light industrial properties, it is primed for redevelopment. For many years it provided the investment zone of choice for investors getting a start in house-flipping or small in-fill multi-family development. Unfortunately, these opportunities have not been fully utilized by those that reside in the community, for a variety of reasons including lack of financing and resident development expertise.