The city of Los Angeles and the greater LA region both reported a second consecutive year of declines in people experiencing homelessness, according to figures released today. By contrast, Long Beach, which conducts its own count, reported a 6.5% increase when it released numbers last month.
Los Angeles’ annual point-in-time homeless count showed there was a 4% decrease in unhoused people across most of the county, while in the city of LA, there was a 3.4% drop, according to data released by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, which was created as a joint city-county organization overseeing funding and programming to address the homelessness crisis. Los Angeles County has since opted to pull funding from the agency and create its own homelessness department.
“Homelessness has gone down two years in a row because we chose to act with urgency and reject the broken status quo of leaving people on the street until housing was built,” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said in a statement responding to the latest numbers.
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Data showed that unsheltered homelessness in the county declined by 9.5% in 2025 compared to the prior year, and it has dropped by 14% over the last two years. Additionally, there has been about an 8.5% increase of unhoused individuals entering interim housing, such as shelters and other forms of temporary housing…