Jeff Olivet, executive director of the U.S. SUGGESTED: After 1 year in office, LA Mayor Bass says this is the state of the city's homeless population The numbers ticked up to about 580,000 in the 2020 count and held relatively steady over the next two years as Congress responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with emergency rental assistance, stimulus payments, aid to states and local governments and a temporary eviction moratorium.
The number of homeless people dropped from about 637,000 in 2010 to about 554,000 in 2017. then made steady progress for about a decade in reducing the homeless population as the government focused particularly on increasing investments to get veterans into housing. Going back to the first 2007 survey, the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge said the data underscored an "urgent need" to support proven solutions that help people quickly exit homelessness and that prevent homelessness in the first place.