Volunteer registration is open for the 2025 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count in January. The 2025 homeless count will take place on the evenings of Jan. 21, 22 and 23. Volunteers can register at count.lahsa.org.

“Last year’s homeless count marked the first decrease in street homelessness that Los Angeles has seen in years,” LAHSA CEO Dr. Va Lecia Adams Kellum said. “As we gear up for this year’s count, community support is crucial. We need thousands of volunteers to join us in counting our unhoused neighbors so we can better understand where they are, the services they need most and what it will take to bring them home.”

Conducted annually, the homeless count typically involves thousands of volunteers spread across the 4,000 square miles of Los Angeles County in late January to conduct the unsheltered count. Traveling in small groups, volunteers tally the number of unsheltered individuals, tents, vehicles and makeshift shelters they see in their assigned census tracts.

The Unsheltered Count will begin on Tuesday, Jan. 21, in the San Fernando Valley and metro Los Angeles. Volunteers in the San Gabriel Valley and East Los Angeles will count on Wednesday, Jan. 22. Finally, the count will wrap up Thursday, Jan. 23, in the Antelope Valley, West and South Los Angeles, and the South Bay/Harbor region.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development requires a biennial point-in-time count of people experiencing homelessness. The annual Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count also includes the youth count and the housing inventory count. For information, visit lahsa.org.