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HUD Has Not Yet Released 2025 National Homelessness Report
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has yet to release its annual point-in-time homelessness count compiling 2025 data as of May 13, 2026. The delay is the longest on record, surpassing disruptions seen during the COVID-19 pandemic. California released its own preliminary figures showing modest declines in homelessness.
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The federal report compiling 2025 point-in-time count data has not been released as of May 13, 2026. This five-month delay is the latest any point-in-time count has ever come out, including the years it was delayed during COVID, Jesse Rabinowitz, spokesperson for the National Homelessness Law Center, said.
The federal government’s annual point-in-time homelessness count is used by city and county governments across the country to determine funding and gauge progress in getting people off the streets.
Every December the federal government releases a report that reveals the number of homeless residents in each state and across the country. The federal report usually comes out in December of the year of the count. For the past two decades the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development has required local regions to take a census of their homeless populations every other year in a point-in-time count.
Volunteers count every person they see living outside over a day or two in January and tally people sleeping in shelters. Counters conduct surveys of a sample of unhoused people collecting data on race, age, gender, time spent homeless, medical and mental health conditions and more.
Each jurisdiction known as a continuum of care must submit their point-in-time count to HUD by the spring and release their local data to the public.
HUD verifies the data, tallies the total count for each state and country, submits a public report to Congress and uploads detailed data on its website. In 2021 the report came out the following February due to COVID disruptions.
