Let's stop homelessness.

Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count takes place every two years.

Los Angeles has the highest street homeless population in the nation. Every day we see men, women and children without a place to call home. We don’t have to accept homelessness as an unsolvable problem. With your help we can end homelessness.

In the fight to end homelessness, we work to connect those in need to emergency shelters, transitional housing, overnight shelters and prevention programs, with the end goal of placing them in permanent housing.

In 2011, we counted and estimated 69,340 homeless persons in Los Angeles County. Tabulating numbers is not the end goal – knowing who and where our homeless populations are allows us to target our resources more effectively to get people housed. The Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count is about building stronger communities where everyone is safe, secure and housed.

How homelessness is defined by HUD (The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development):

A homeless person is: An individual or family who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence and An individual or family who has a primary nighttime residence that is:

A supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations (including welfare hotels, congregate shelters, and transitional housing for the mentally ill);

An institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized; or
A public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, regular sleeping accommodations for human beings.
This term does not include any individual imprisoned or otherwise detained under an Act of Congress or a State law.