WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs announced that it permanently housed 51,936 homeless Veterans across the country in fiscal year 2025.
That number is 4,011 more Veterans than VA housed last year.
The nationwide numbers include 276 permanently housed by the Ralph H. Johnson VA Health Care System.
This is VA’s best national performance since it began tracking the number of individual Veterans permanently housed instead of the total number of permanent housing placements, ensuring a more accurate count of the number of Veterans helped.
VA began using this new methodology in 2022, and when applied retroactively to 2019, the numbers look like this:
In May 2025, VA took bold action to reduce Veteran homelessness by launching its Getting Veterans Off the Street initiative, in which every VA health care system across the country hosted dedicated outreach surge events to locate unsheltered Veterans and offer them immediate access to housing programs, health care, behavioral health services, and VA benefits. Getting Veterans Off the Street helped move 25,065 unsheltered Veterans to interim (emergency and transition) or permanent housing.
“Ending homelessness for even one Veteran is powerful, but ending it for hundreds is transformational,” said Scott Isaacks, Director and CEO of the Ralph H. Johnson VA Health Care System. “These are the men and women who wore the uniform for us, and it is our obligation to stand up for them. We will not slow down until every Veteran has the dignity, safety, and stability of a home.”
These efforts complement President Trump’s May executive order to establish a National Center for Warrior Independence for Homeless Veterans on the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center campus. The National Center for Warrior Independence for Homeless Veterans aims to provide housing and support for up to 6,000 homeless Veterans from across the nation by 2028.
Every day, VA staff and community partners across the country help Veterans find permanent housing – such as apartments or houses to rent or own – often with subsidies to help make the housing more affordable. In some cases, VA teams and partners help Veterans end their homelessness by reuniting them with family and friends.
Visit VA.gov/homeless to learn about housing initiatives and other programs supporting homeless Veterans.