Michael Kimmelman, the architecture critic of The Times, recently visited new permanent supportive housing developments in Long Beach and Venice, Calif.
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Outside, it is a colorful five-story mix of puzzle-block shapes, raised on stilts, with a jagged roofline and gabled breezeway playing off the single-family houses behind it. Painted patches of green, rose and blue piping sing in the Southern California sun.
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