Homelessness in LA County Declines
Homelessness in Los Angeles county declined by 4% to an estimated 72,308 people in 2025, the Los Angeles homeless services authority (Lahsa) announced on Monday.
The southern California metropolitan area previously reported its highest unhoused population in 2023, when it counted 75,518 people experiencing homelessness. That count decreased slightly to 75,312 people in 2024.
“For the first time in our city’s recent history, homelessness has gone down two years in a row,” the Los Angeles mayor, Karen Bass, said at a press conference announcing the results of Lahsa’s annual point-in-time count.
The estimate is based on a count conducted over three days in February 2025, and includes people living on the street and people in shelters. For the first time in its history, the point-in-time count was entered entirely digitally, a change the agency hopes will improve speed and accuracy in future counts.