What Transitional Housing Costs in Los Angeles in Real Numbers

Every housing site in Los Angeles makes you call to find out the price. We would rather you knew before you called.

Wellness Housing offers transitional housing in Los Angeles in three shared homes in South Los Angeles. Here is exactly what a bed in one costs.

A bunk bed in a shared room at Wellness Housing is $650 a month. A single bed in a shared room is $750 a month. Both include power, water and gas, and the same two prices apply at all three houses. Price is usually the first question and the last thing anyone will put in writing, so here is the rest of it, plainly.

The number

$650 a month for a bunk bed. $750 a month for a single bed. The difference is the bed, not the room. Every room at every house is shared and every bed is rented to one adult.

To be clear about what we offer: we rent beds in shared rooms, not private rooms. Every resident has a roommate, and that is what keeps the cost as low as it is. A private room in Los Angeles costs a great deal more. A shared room is how a clean, quiet, managed home becomes affordable on General Relief or on a modest paycheck. The full breakdown lives on the Wellness Housing pricing page.

What that number includes

• Power, water and gas. Nothing appears later as a separate bill.
• A furnished bed with a mattress and a chest of drawers. You bring your things, not furniture.
• A furnished shared kitchen and laundry on site.
• A managed house. A live in manager runs it and the common areas are cleaned every day.

What is due at move in

The first month of rent and a $50 registration fee. Ask about anything else on the call, before you agree to anything.

What we never charge for

• No security deposit. Nothing large to save up before you can move in. More on that in housing with no security deposit.
• No credit check, and no fee for one.
• No lease to break. Residents stay month to month with no fixed term.
• No meal charge and no kitchen fee.

How people pay

Roughly half of our residents pay through General Relief from DPSS or another form of third party assistance. The rest pay out of pocket each month. When DPSS pays for your bed, you do not pay the difference. Both are normal here and nobody in the house knows or asks which one you are.

What to compare this against

Not against a private apartment, because that is a different product with a deposit, a credit check, a lease and separate utility bills. Compare it against the real alternatives: a motel by the week with none of the stability, or a room listing that wants first month, last month and a deposit. Against those, a bed here is usually the lowest total cost and often the one you can move into soonest.

Want to know what happens after you call? How to apply walks through it, and what sober living at Wellness Housing means covers the houses.

Call to check openings at the house you are interested in. The price on the phone is the price on this page.

Call 562-716-4568 or email [email protected].