Month: May 2026

BOSS Homes Joins Groundbreaking for Tiny Home Village in Los Angeles

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

Mayor Karen Bass yesterday joined Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez, Dignity Moves founder Elizabeth Funk, and Boss Homes CEO Viken Ohanesian, as well as Hope the Mission and other 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.

Boss Homes is proud to support this important development is part of a larger effort led by the City of Los Angeles and the State of California to create faster, more effective housing solutions for communities in need. Working alongside DignityMoves, Hope the Mission, the city of Los Angeles, Lehrer architects and other dedicated partners, Boss Homes is helping bring high-quality interim housing online quickly and efficiently.

At Boss Homes, we believe every person deserves dignity, safety, and a pathway toward stability. Projects like Sierra Vista demonstrate how innovative construction solutions and strong partnerships can help cities respond to homelessness with urgency, compassion, and long-term impact. The Sierra Vista tiny home village is expected to open in early 2027.

A Faster, Smarter Response to Homelessness

Jerrold Ave Interim housing community

At BOSS Homes, we believe the housing crisis cannot be solved with slow, expensive construction alone. Across California, cities are facing growing homelessness while traditional permanent supportive housing can cost $600,000 to $800,000 per unit and take years to complete. While those projects have an important place, they cannot be the only answer to a crisis affecting tens of thousands of people today.

The challenge is not a lack of compassion. Rather, it is a need for solutions that can match the scale and urgency of the problem.

Many people who lose housing are not chronically homeless when they first fall into crisis. Often, it begins with a lost job, rising rent, a medical emergency, or a family hardship. When people fall upon hard times and lose their housing, they have a far better chance of stabilizing if they can be housed quickly, before short-term hardship becomes long-term homelessness.

That is why interim supportive housing matters.

BOSS Homes works with cities, counties, and nonprofit partners to deliver safe, dignified interim communities that can be built in a fraction of the time of traditional construction and at a fraction of the cost. Our modular systems provide private rooms, bathrooms, offices, dining areas, and support spaces that create stability while service providers help residents move toward permanent housing.

Unlike congregate shelters, private units give residents safety, privacy, and dignity. These three things that are often essential for rebuilding trust and restoring stability. Just as importantly, organized communities make it easier for providers to consistently deliver case management, healthcare, behavioral health services, and job support.

Because our homes are factory-built while site work happens simultaneously, BOSS can reduce construction timelines by more than 50% with the all-in-built cost for an interim housing community for less than $60,000 per room, allowing communities to respond faster when the need is greatest.

The reality is simple: the longer someone remains on the street, the more difficult and expensive recovery becomes. Early housing intervention not only reduces public costs, it gives people a better chance to regain independence. 

At BOSS Homes, we believe cities should not have to choose between compassion and accountability. With the right housing solutions, they can deliver both.