Exclusive | LAs ludicrous housing hell exposed as three luxury townhouses sit half-built after 10 years

Three luxury townhouse projects that have been left half-built for nearly a decade have descended into a horrific eyesore — as locals demand Los Angeles get the site cleaned up.The plot, now known to locals as the “graffiti towers of Silver Lake,” shows abandoned shells of the three buildings with loose tarp covering the exterior at an intersection on Glendale Blvd.Work began in 2017 with construction kicking into gear in 2019 before the wood framing was added back in 2023.But despite the progress into what now resemble houses, the project has been left to rot and has attracted homeless people and stacks of litter inside and out.Neighborhood activist Debbie Slater told The California Post: “We like to call it our graffiti tower of Silver Lake.It’s obviously not quite as much of an icon or whatever you want to describe it, but that’s sort of how it looks.Over the last few years, the project has seen little to no progress, according to the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council.Slater told The Post the building process essentially stalled just after COVID.

She continued: “Neighbors were concerned about some vagrancy.“They filed complaints with the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety and they would come by and would resecure the property.”The owner is Hardy Wronske, head of Everelle Build Co, a developer who has sprung up dozens of other builds across the city while Glendale Blvd.remained gutted.The Post visited the site this week and saw the wood framing of the three units covered in graffiti.Wronske did not respond to repeated requests for comment but in response to an email from the council in January 2025, his wife Regina O’Brien Wronske insisted they were still working on the project.She wrote: “Despite the challenges of the beginning of the year, and while workers can be seen doing smaller work on the exterior, we are very much very busy at that job site- attempting to finish rough MEP inspections within the next several weeks.“At th...