The Greater Los Angeles region experienced a second consecutive year-over-year decline in people experiencing homelessness, according to figures released July 14, but authorities warned that more housing will be needed to continue the downward trend.

The annual point-in-time homeless count showed there was a 4% decrease in unhoused people across the county, while in the city of Los Angeles, 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 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.

Mayor Karen Bass, left, shakes hands with /Faith Pennington, a homeless woman living in a tiny homes community, during the annual homeless count in the North Hollywood section of Los Angeles Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. 

Thousands of clipboard-toting volunteers with the LA Homeless Services Authority fanned out across the county Tuesday night for the effort’s main component, the unsheltered street tally. 

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.

In the city of L.A., unsheltered homelessness declined by 7.9% in 2025, and it has dropped by 17.5% over the last two years. The city reported there has been a 4.7% increase in unhoused individuals entering temporary housing in the city.

The 2025 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count was conducted over the course of three days, Feb. 18-20, after it was postponed in January due to the devastating wildfires that ravaged areas of L.A. County and city.