WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs today announced that it permanently housed 51,936 homeless Veterans across the country in fiscal year 2025.
It’s also VA’s best 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.
The Biden Administration began using this new methodology in 2022, and when applied retroactively to 2019, the numbers look like this:
FY
Permanent Housing Placements
Unique Veterans Housed
FY 2025
53,839
51,936
FY 2024
51,124
47,925
FY 2023
48,059
46,051
FY 2022
41,208
39,868
FY 2021
39,637
38,401
FY 2020
45,397
44,048
FY 2019
49,462
48,133
“This is life-changing and in many cases life-saving work,” said VA Secretary Doug Collins. “We are proud of the progress VA is making to get Veterans off the streets and are redoubling our efforts to continue this momentum moving forward.”
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.
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.
