The number of unsheltered homeless people in Los Angeles County in 2025 dropped by 9.5 percent from the previous year, according to the latest official count.

The “unsheltered homeless” are people living on the streets, in encampments, or in vehicles. The overall homeless total includes both sheltered and unsheltered populations.

Los Angeles County’s homeless total dropped for the second straight year, dipping 4 percent to 72,308, according to the count by Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) released on July 13.

In the city of Los Angeles, homelessness declined 3.4 percent to 43,699, and the unsheltered portion fell by 7.9 percent.

Over the past two years, the county and city have seen unsheltered homelessness fall by 14 percent and 17.5 percent, respectively, according to LAHSA.

With all those unsheltered people finding a place to stay, sheltered homelessness is up by 4.7 percent in the city and 8.5 percent countywide.

“This Point in Time Count makes one thing clear: Change is possible when we refuse to accept encampments as normal and refuse to leave people behind,” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said in a statement.

The mayor credits the Inside Safe Team, a city initiative, for bringing the unsheltered population indoors into interim housing.

“With over 72,000 county residents who are still unhoused, we know that there is more work yet to be done,” said Los Angeles County Chair Pro Tem and First District Supervisor Hilda Solis. “To that end, I remain committed to bring forward the housing and services needed to address this crisis.”

LAHSA also gives credit to another encampment resolution program, the county’s Pathway Home. Both programs, according to LAHSA, have placed 6,317 people in interim housing and permanently housed 1,449.

Permanent housing placements are also at an all-time high of nearly 27,994 in 2025—a 2.5 percent increase over the previous year. LAHSA said the placements were partly due to the 2,960 permanent supportive housing units created in 2024 under Prop HHH, a bond measure approved in 2016 to fund supportive housing. Since 2017, there have been 125,000 permanent housing placements, according to LAHSA.

Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn said that the cities’ programs are responsible for the reduction in unsheltered homeless people.

“With thousands fewer people on our streets, these numbers are encouraging. It is clear to me our focus on bringing people inside by clearing encampments is paying off and programs like the city’s Inside Safe and the county’s Pathway Home are working,” she said in a statement. “These strategies are not only compassionate, but they are also the most effective tools we have in addressing homelessness and we are seeing the impact in real time.”