City Council will vote on tiny homes site for homeless in South Sacramento
Sacramento’s plan to combat its homelessness crisis with tiny homes continues this week as the City Council takes up a vote Tuesday on a new project in South Sacramento.
The permanent housing site would be located at 4290 Mack Road, on the border of the Parkway and Valley Hi/North Laguna neighborhoods, and serve 120 homeless households, including some families with “suspected behavioral health issues,” according to a city staff report. The project is dependent on roughly $35 million in funding from Proposition 1, which voters narrowly passed last year to push for more housing production and treatment beds.
Last week, the City Council unanimously approved a similar tiny homes site for seniors in North Sacramento. The move reflects the city’s broader shift away from congregate homeless shelters toward smaller, community-based housing.
“The Mack Road Housing project is a meaningful solution — bringing 120 units of permanent housing and on-site support services to those who need it most,” said Councilmember Caity Maple — who represents the area of the proposed site as well as Oak Park and Hollywood Park.
“In District 5, we’re doing our part, and I’m committed to advancing more projects like this across Sacramento,” she said in a written statement.
The project would mostly use 240-square-foot tiny homes priced at roughly $200,000 per unit and produced by Los Angeles-based company Boss Homes, according to the staff report. Each unit would include a living space, bathroom and kitchenette. This brand of tiny homes is used at the county’s homeless shelter along Stockton Boulevard, according to previous Bee reporting.
The now-vacant property would also offer a community garden, parking, laundry facilities, private office spaces and case managers. Tenants would rent the units and “pay no more than 30% of their income,” according to city staff.
Money from the state would cover capital costs — land acquisition, site work and unit assembly — and five years of operation support. The city would need to contribute $1.5 million from its Homeless Housing Assistance and Prevention program to fully fund the site, which is nearly 11 acres, according to the county Assessor’s Office.
The council will vote on the project during its 5 p.m. meeting.
If state funding is awarded, a formal agreement would return to the council for final authorization. The Mack Road project would be located near the city-owned 102-acre site in Meadowview, which remains vacant and has been discussed as another potential site for the unhoused.
This story was originally published May 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM.
