Construction crews are now on site at 6144 N. Hazelhurst Place in North Hollywood, where a four-story, 49-unit affordable housing building is taking shape just a few blocks east of the NoHo West retail complex. The project includes 32 one-bedroom and 17 two-bedroom apartments, and it is being built with no on-site parking at all.
Urbanize LA reported a new application to the Los Angeles Department of City Planning for the project, which sits one block off Lankershim Boulevard. Work is now underway at the site, after the outlet covered the proposal in June 2025. Permits describe a 26,290-square-foot, 100 percent affordable multifamily residential building, per The Real Deal, which pegs construction costs at $3.8 million.
Avenue Homes is behind the development, which is designed by Open Office and shown in renderings as a contemporary, stucco-clad structure. The project is seeking streamlining through Mayor Karen Bass's Executive Directive 1 along with density-bonus incentives, though those are requested entitlements rather than confirmed approvals, as reported by Urbanize LA. The Real Deal's account of the permits also describes the project tapping incentives under the city's Affordable Housing Incentive Program, with no parking planned on site.
A Snapshot From the City's Planning Files
A city planning notice dated June 26, 2025 had listed the case's review status as “Case Processing on Hold” at that time, according to Los Angeles City Planning. That notice is simply a dated snapshot of where the case stood more than a year ago, and it does not speak to the project's status now that permits have reportedly been issued and crews are on site.
Part of a Broader Affordable Housing Push
The Hazelhurst Place project is one of several similar efforts moving forward around Los Angeles. Avenue Homes and Open Office are also working on a comparable affordable housing complex in Historic Filipinotown, the same report notes. That Historic Filipinotown project, proposed by Angeleno Investments at 217 N. Park View Street and also designed by Open Office, calls for a four-story building with 34 one-bedroom apartments and no on-site parking.
Elsewhere in North Hollywood, HVN Development filed plans in March for a five-story building at 5151 Denny Avenue with 80 two-bedroom apartments, as noted by The Real Deal. Mayor Bass's office has said nearly 47,000 units of affordable housing were in the pipeline citywide under Executive Directive 1 as of July, describing the directive as a tool that streamlines the approval process for fully affordable projects.
A Changing Stretch Near NoHo West
The Hazelhurst project sits near NoHo West, the 25-acre former shopping mall that was redeveloped into a mixed-use development with more than 600 apartments, a movie theater, and a Trader Joe's. That transformation has helped reshape the surrounding blocks of North Hollywood, and the new affordable building adds another residential project to a stretch of the neighborhood that continues to densify just off Lankershim Boulevard.
