The Brief
- Los Angeles County and state leaders broke ground on the LA County Care Community, a $106 million mental health and housing village in Norwalk.
- The project repurposes six vacant historic buildings on the Metropolitan State Hospital campus to provide 162 beds across three distinct levels of care.
- Funding is primarily driven by $65 million from Proposition 1, marking it as the most significant project to break ground under the 2024 ballot measure.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Calif. – Los Angeles County officials and state leaders on Friday broke ground on a transformative mental health village in Norwalk, which will repurpose long-dormant structures on the Metropolitan State Hospital campus to address the region’s urgent needs for individuals struggling with serious mental illness and homelessness.
What we know:
The LA County Care Community will utilize 13 acres of state land to house six renovated buildings centered around a shared courtyard. The long-dormant buildings date back to the 1920s.…