Housing Available for Mentally Disabled

Hillview Village, a low-cost housing complex for homeless adults with mental disabilities, has announced that it is again accepting applications for apartments.

Prices range from $295 per month for a single to $351 for a one-bedroom at the 50-unit complex, which is operated as a joint venture by the Hillview Mental Health Center and the Valley Housing Foundation.

When it opened its doors in December 1994, the $5.2-million complex at 12408 Van Nuys Blvd. was the only permanent, low-cost facility for mentally disabled adults in the San Fernando Valley.

Carl C. McCraven, director of the Hillview Mental Health Center, said the facility offers security and stability to people who have spent much of their lives in and out of mental institutions and on and off the streets.

“Some of these people didn’t have a place to live at all and at best they lived in board-and-care homes. Hillview Village gives them a little more privacy,” McCraven said.

The complex is made up of several buildings and features a multipurpose room, a laundry room, recreational facilities and a series of courtyards and green spaces. It was designed to enhance each tenant’s ability to function as fully as possible in the community, McCraven said.

Residents of Hillview now prepare their meals in a community kitchen, McCraven said, but the facility plans to establish a program that would enable them to purchase some meals.

To inquire about renting an apartment at Hillview Village, call (818) 896-1161.