Tiny Homes Villages
Changing The Face of Homelessness
In February of 2021, Hope the Mission launched the very first Tiny Home Village in the City of Los Angeles, Chandler Blvd. Tiny Home Village in North Hollywood.
Since then, Hope the Mission has had the honor of opening six more Tiny Home Villages throughout Los Angeles County and expanding our services to other counties.
Every Tiny Home Village has a dog run/pet relief area, laundry facility, restrooms/showers, case management, and three meals a day.
Alexandria Park
Alexandria Park Tiny Home Village is Hope’s second-largest Tiny Home Facility. Key features of this facility are the bright colors, wide-spread layout, and communal areas.
Watch the Virtual Tour by clicking on the photo to the left!
The Alexandria Park Tiny Home Village is located in North Hollywood, CA 91606. Hope of the Valley, founded in the summer of 2009, now operates 13 Shelters, 2 Access Centers and a Job Center. We currently provide 1,506 beds per night at our various shelters throughout the greater Los Angeles area housing single adults, families and transitional age youth. We currently serve approximately 1,500 meals per day and 547,500 meals annually.
We exist to prevent, reduce and eliminate poverty, hunger and homelessness by offering immediate assistance and long term solutions.
In 2021, Hope of the Valley expanded into the Antelope Valley, launched two Bridge Housing Shelters in the West San Fernando Valley and opened the very first Tiny Home Villages in the City of Los Angeles. The Tiny Home Villages are being built by the City of Los Angeles and Hope of the Valley Rescue Mission has the extreme honor and privilege of opening and operating six Tiny Home Village Sites (Chandler Blvd. (NoHo), Alexandria Park (NoHo), Tarzana Sun Flower Cabin Community, Reseda Cabin Community, Whitsett West (NoHo) and due to open Late Early Fall of 2021, Arroyo Seco (Highland Park). With many thanks to Councilmen Paul Krekorian, John Lee, Bob Blumenfield, Kevin DeLeon and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Hope of the Valley is opening/operating six innovative, cost effective and life-changing Tiny Home Villages! The Chandler Blvd. Tiny Home Village opened February 2021 and has 39 homes and 85 beds. Alexandria Park opened May 2021 and has 103 homes and 200 beds. Reseda opened in June 2021 and has 52 homes and 101 beds. Tarzana opened in July 2021 with 78 homes and 148 beds. In the half of 2021 we have already added 534 beds to our existing 506 beds! And… there is much more growth and expansion planned for the rest of the year as we strive to bring inside our unhoused neighbors.
The Alexandria Park Tiny Home Village is located at 6099 Laurel Canyon Road, North Hollywood, CA 91606, right next to Victory Outreach Church. Parking for guided tours is directly behind Victory Outreach Church. Entrance for the Drive-Thru Tour is located on Laurel Canyon Road.
The Tiny Homes are really amazing. Each one is 64 sq. ft. in size, has two beds, heat, air-conditioning, windows, a small desk and a front door! Onsite, meals, showers, case management, housing navigation, mental health, job training and placement will be provided. We are doing our very best to MAKE HOMELESS HISTORY!
Arroyo Seco Tiny Home Village
The New Arroyo Seco Tiny Home village, funded and built by the City of Los Angeles, with 117 units and 224 beds, is the largest tiny home village in California (and the country). With many thanks to Councilmember Kevin De Leòn and former Los Angeles City Mayor, Eric Garcetti.
Watch the Virtual Tour by clicking on the photo to the right!
The New Arroyo Seco Tiny Home village, funded and built by the City of Los Angeles, with 117 units and 224 beds, is the largest tiny home village in California (and the country). With many thanks to Councilmember Kevin De Leòn and Los Angeles City Mayor, Eric Garcetti it is the seventh Tiny Home Village to open in Los Angeles County and the sixth run by Hope of the Valley Rescue Mission including three in North Hollywood (Chandler Blvd, Alexandria Park and Whitsett West) and two more in Reseda and Tarzana.
The New Tiny Home Village opened in November of 2021 and provides an immediate pathway for the homeless in the area to break the cycle of living on the streets and find permanent and stable housing. Tiny Homes are an innovative, affordable, and scalable solution to the humanitarian crisis known as homelessness. Unlike traditional shelter or affordable housing projects, tiny homes take a short time to build and assemble, at just a fraction of the cost.
According to the latest homeless count there are more than 60,000 unhoused people in Los Angeles County. Nearly 14,000 of them are living on the streets in and around Downtown Los Angeles. “We have more unhoused people in Council District 14 than Chicago or Houston, the No. 3 and 4 most populated cities in America,” said CD14 Councilman Kevin De León. The Arroyo Seco Tiny Home Village will serve unhoused men and women within an approximate 3 mile radius of the site encompassing parts of Boyle Heights, Eagle Rock, El Sereno, Glassell Park, Highland Park and Monterey Hills.
The Arroyo Seco Tiny Home Village is situated on a sliver of the 6.8-acre Arroyo Seco Park on the north side of 110 freeway near Avenue 60. It is being built at the edge of the park on existing asphalt to prevent the destruction of any trees. A hedge will be planted to blend the village with the park’s landscaping, and a nine-foot-tall barrier will be installed on the freeway side to mitigate sound. Several homeless encampments exist in and around this area.
Made by Pallet Shelter, a Washington based company, each tiny home measures eight feet by eight feet and has a locking door, four windows with screens, heating, cooling and electricity, as well as a fire extinguisher, smoke detector and carbon monoxide monitor. The company also provides storage and a folding bed that can be doubled up into a bunk and stowed away when not in use.
In addition to the homes, the city will supply three hygiene trailers, on-site laundry, water bottle filling stations, designated seating for food distribution and dining, as well as lighting and 24-hour security. Each resident living in the Tiny Home Community has full access to an array of social services including case management, housing navigation, mental health services, substance abuse counseling, as well as job training and placement. Unlike congregant shelters, Tiny Homes allow couples to stay together, as well as keep their pets with them. They are currently intended for interim housing, and within a 4–6-month period, the majority of Tiny Home residents are placed into permanent housing and the unit is to be filled with another deserving client seeking permanent shelter and a better cycle of living.
Chandler Tiny Home Village
Chandler Blvd Tiny Home Village is the first of a series of villages made up of “tiny homes” in San Fernando Valley. The first village of its kind in Los Angeles, Chandler Blvd has 40 homes (75 beds) manufactured by Pallet Shelter. The Chandler Blvd. Tiny Home Village was developed by the City of Los Angeles. Each tiny home is 64 square feet in size, has two beds, heat, air-conditioning, windows, a small desk and a front door.
With many thanks to Councilman Paul Krekorian and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, it officially opened its doors in North Hollywood Monday, February 1st, 2021, welcoming its first unhoused guests who were coming in from living on nearby streets, under freeway overpasses and in parks and homeless encampments in the North Hollywood area. The village sits along Chandler Boulevard, in a half-acre plot near the north end of North Hollywood Recreation Center.
The tiny home villages are interim or “transitional” housing for those living on the sidewalks and encampments around the area. They provide a “bridge” between the street and more permanent housing solutions. Residents can live there for free, so long as they are on a positive pathway to permanent housing which generally take 3-6mos to find for incoming guests. As Los Angeles City Mayor, Eric Garcetti has pointed out, “The streets shouldn’t be the waiting room” for more permanent housing solutions. Through our partnership with LAHSA (Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority) and many others we provide “wrap around” services that include onsite, meals, showers, case management, housing navigation, mental health, job training and placement. We are doing our very best to MAKE HOMELESS HISTORY!
We invite you to support the Tiny Home Villages. The donation is designed to assist us with the operational costs* of the site.
*Hope of the Valley has an operational contract with LAHSA (Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority) for the majority of the expenses incurred as the operator. Donations are intended to supplement our existing operational contract. Donations do not go to the building or purchase of a unit and it by no means covers the cost of building the Tiny Home Communities. Building a Tiny Home site, especially when infrastructure costs include adding sewer, water, gas and power is very expensive and the City of Los Angeles is paying these expenses and responsible for building and funding these amazing sites.
Hope on Hart Street
According to the 2023 Point in Time Count, out of the nearly 1,948 individuals experiencing homelessness in Kern, most of them are located in the Bakersfield Metro area, including Oildale, East Bakersfield, and Rosedale. This Tiny Home Community will consist of 152 Beds in Kern County. This once-empty lot is being transformed into a beacon of HOPE for those homeless in the Kern County Area.
The site will comprise of 50 Tiny Home Units, we will provide 24/7 Interim Housing services, Case Management, and various other programs on site.
This site is still under construction and we should be expecting our first participants in March 2024.
Reseda Tiny Home Village
Tarzana Tiny Home Village
Fully designed and funded by the City of Los Angeles, the new Tarzana Tiny Home Village Consists of 76 units, 150 beds, and will immediately provide a pathway for the homeless in the area to break the cycle of living on the streets and find permanent and stable housing.
Watch the Virtual Tour by clicking on the photo to the right!
Whittest West Tiny Home Village
Whitsett West Tiny Home Village is right off of the 170 Freeway, near Sherman Way, at Whitsett and Saticoy Street. Built by the City of Los Angeles, this new Tiny Home Village consists of 77 units and 150 beds and is estimated to help nearly 600+ unhoused Angelenos take their first step off the streets annually!
Watch the Virtual Tour by clicking on the photo to the left!