Mayor Bass, Councilmember Padilla Open New 200+ Tiny Home Village in Sun Valley to Combat Homelessness

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LOS ANGELES - Mayor Karen Bass today was joined by Councilmember Imelda Padilla and leadership from Hope the Mission to unveil a new tiny home village in Sun Valley, providing more than 200 homes for Angelenos transitioning out of homelessness. Today's opening is part of a larger effort to build 500+ tiny homes across Los Angeles to provide unhoused Angelenos with stable, transitional housing while also reducing the cost for the City to get people off the streets. B-roll available here.

"Leveraging tiny homes as interim housing is a key part of our strategy to reduce the cost of Inside Safe and move away from housing homeless Angelenos in motels as we work to expedite the building of permanent housing across L.A.," said Mayor Bass. "With hundreds of tiny homes now online and hundreds more under construction, we'll continue implementing innovative, cost-effective solutions to expand our ability to bring people in off the street."

"Today, we're not just cutting a ribbon - we're opening doors," said Councilmember Imelda Padilla. "These tiny homes represent more than shelter; they represent dignity, stability and a real first step toward permanent housing for our unhoused neighbors here in Sun Valley. This is what it looks like when we invest in people, not just policy. I want to thank every city department, service provider and community partner who helped bring this project to life, and I'm proud that Sun Valley is leading the way in showing what compassionate, effective solutions to homelessness can look like."

Interim housing is a crucial step in a person's transition from the street toward long-term stability and a permanent home. Mayor Bass is working to reverse decades of inaction from City Hall to rapidly accelerate the building of affordable housing across Los Angeles, including:

• Signing Executive Directive 1 during her first week in office to slash red tape and streamline the approval of 100% affordable housing. Currently, nearly 47,000 units of affordable housing are in the pipeline with 6,000 already under construction. In December 2025, the City Council voted unanimously in favor of making the directive a permanent city ordinance.

• Implementing the Citywide Housing Incentive Program (CHIP), the largest local rezoning program in modern history that creates the capacity for half a million new homes and opens up more of the city to housing - along major corridors, near transit, and in neighborhoods where people already live and work.

• Expanding the Adaptive Reuse Ordinance citywide to convert vacant office buildings and parking lots into housing, which could create more than 43,000 new homes across the city.

• Signing Executive Directive 19 to modernize and streamline how the City reviews and processes building applications, responding directly to the barriers that applicants, developers, and contractors have identified as impediments to building in Los Angeles.

• Releasing four Missing Middle LA draft ordinances to make it easier to build smaller, more affordable options for homebuyers and renters, like duplexes and accessory dwelling units (ADUs).