VA houses largest number of homeless veterans in 7 years
The Department of Veterans Affairs said it permanently housed 51,936 homeless veterans across the country in fiscal year 2025.
A release by the department on Monday, Dec. 1, said the 2025 total, which includes 131 that were permanently housed by VA Butler Healthcare System, is 4,011 more veterans than housed in 2024.
The department said the data represents the best national performance since it began tracking the number of veterans permanently housed instead of the total number of housing placements, which more accurately counts the number of veterans helped.
Total housing placements for 2025 were 53,839, up by 2,715 from 2024, the release said.
In May, the department launched 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 access to housing and other VA programs.
Thus far, Getting Veterans Off the Street has helped move 25,065 unsheltered veterans to interim or permanent housing, the release said.
“This is life-changing, and in many cases lifesaving, work,” Sharon Coyle, executive director of VA Butler Healthcare said. “We are proud of the progress Butler VA Health Care System is making to get veterans off the streets and are redoubling our efforts to continue this momentum moving forward.”
More information about initiatives and programs supporting homeless veterans can be found at VA.gov/homeless.
