North Hollywood tiny home village offers 78 beds, mixed housing results

North Hollywood’s tiny home villages were built as fast interim shelter, but the latest numbers show a mixed record: 78 beds across 39 units, a $5.4 million build cost, and a permanent-housing exit rate that has struggled to keep pace with the original promise.

The first city village in the neighborhood, Chandler Boulevard, opened in February 2021 as a 39-unit transitional housing development for formerly homeless individuals and couples. HUD later described it as the prototype for a series of 11 interim housing developments. Just down the road, Alexandria Park opened on April 22, 2021, with the city saying it held 103 shelters and 200 beds. The two sites became early anchors of Los Angeles’ COVID-19 Homelessness Roadmap, adopted in June 2020 to add shelter beds quickly during the pandemic.

Capacity, however, has not told the whole story. Hope the Mission later said Chandler has 39 homes and 85 beds, while FOX 11 reported that the broader North Hollywood site offers 78 beds across 39 small units. That gap in reported bed counts underscores how much these villages are still being measured not just by how many structures go up, but by how many people actually move through them.

That is where the results have been uneven. FOX 11 reported that LAHSA data showed roughly a 10% success rate in 2024 for similar city-funded programs under Inside Safe and City Roadmap initiatives. Hope the Mission vice president Ivet Samvelyan said the organization exits about 30% of clients into permanent housing, and that the average stay at the North Hollywood village is about 200 days. LAHSA’s October 2024 tiny home village services scope document and a separate 2024 Midvale Tiny Home Village Program RFP show the model remains active, even as officials continue to refine how it is supposed to work.

Inside the village, residents can bring pets and have access to laundry, showers, a dog run, meals, housing navigation support and mental-health referrals. Residents must check in at least once every three days, and drug use is prohibited on site. Hope the Mission says it launched the first Los Angeles tiny home village in February 2021 and now operates multiple villages across Los Angeles County, alongside a broader shelter system that provides 1,506 beds per night and about 1,500 meals per day.

For City Councilmember Adrin Nazarian, the debate still comes back to what happens if the village does not exist. “What’s the alternative? Have them on the street?” he said. One resident put the payoff in simpler terms: “It’s helping me - not being on the streets.” That is still the central test in North Hollywood, where the village can point to beds and services, but the real scorecard is whether those units keep turning into exits.