Mayor Bass Breaks Ground on New East Hollywood Tiny Home Village Providing 50+ Interim Housing Units

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LOS ANGELES - Mayor Karen Bass today joined Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez and nonprofit partners to break ground on a new tiny home village in East Hollywood that will provide safe, stable interim housing for more than 50 unhoused Angelenos, including 10 beds dedicated to transitional-age youth.

The innovative housing project, located on Sierra Vista Ave, is part of a broader citywide effort supported by a $33 million investment from Governor Gavin Newsom and the State of California to create new tiny homes across Los Angeles.

"My career began in the emergency room, where I cared for patients coming off the streets and saw firsthand the devastating toll of homelessness," said Mayor Karen Bass. "I watched entirely treatable illnesses become deadly simply because people had no access to care and no safe place to recover. These tiny homes will provide safe, stable interim housing for more than 50 of our unhoused neighbors. But this is about more than four walls and a roof - it is about dignity, and giving people a real chance to start again."

"Right now, Los Angeles only has enough interim housing capacity for about one-third of the people living on our streets. That's unacceptable, which is why we've expanded our interim housing stock by more than 25% since taking office," said City Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez. "At a time when funding is being cut at every level of government, the determination and creativity it took from my team and our trusted service providers to break ground on these 51 beds is truly extraordinary."

On her first day in office, Mayor Bass declared a state of emergency on homelessness before launching Inside Safe as the city's first comprehensive encampment strategy. Since then, homelessness in Los Angeles has declined for two consecutive years. While street homelessness has increased in nearly every other major city across the country, it has decreased in Los Angeles by nearly 18%.

Last year, Mayor Bass' Inside Safe team worked to bring more than 20 unhoused Angelenos indoors from an encampment located just around the corner from this new tiny home village. In close partnership with Councilmember Soto-Martínez, residents were connected to lifesaving medical care and social services, while multiple tents were removed from the site.

The Sierra Vista tiny home village is expected to open in early 2027. In addition to Councilmember Soto-Martínez, the project is supported by the California Department of Housing and Community Development, Hope the Mission, BOSS (Built On Site Systems), Lehrer Architects, and the Zegar Family Foundation.