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  • Getting Veterans off the street: A new step toward ending Veteran homelessness

    Getting Veterans off the street: A new step toward ending Veteran homelessness

    VA’s new surge initiative aims to find unsheltered Veterans by meeting them where they are and fast-tracking their access to housing and care.

  • How Veteran homelessness is dropping amid a record surge

    How Veteran homelessness is dropping amid a record surge

    This podcast episode looks at how Veteran homelessness rates dropped to a record low in 2024 despite a national homelessness epidemic.

  • Veteran homelessness reaches record low, decreasing by 7.5% since 2023

    Veteran homelessness reaches record low, decreasing by 7.5% since 2023

    Data comes weeks after VA announced that it housed nearly 48,000 homeless Veterans in FY24.

  • How we’re winning the fight to end Veteran homelessness

    How we’re winning the fight to end Veteran homelessness

    Monica Diaz, executive director of the Homeless Programs Office, discusses the progress made in housing Veterans in 2024.

  • PIT Count gives insight into Veteran homelessness

    PIT Count gives insight into Veteran homelessness

    William Snow, senior program specialist at HUD, explains how the Point-in-Time Count provides valuable data on Veteran homelessness.

  • A beginner’s guide to Veteran homelessness

    A beginner’s guide to Veteran homelessness

    A three-part mini-series podcast introduces Veteran homelessness, where we stand and how we’re working to fix it.

  • One Team approach brings new life to ending Veteran homelessness

    One Team approach brings new life to ending Veteran homelessness

    Ending Veteran Homelessness podcast discusses how the One Team approach is allowing VA to house more Veterans.

  • VA and community declare end to North Texas Veteran homelessness

    VA and community declare end to North Texas Veteran homelessness

    Dallas joins 83 communities across the United States that formally declared an effective end to Veteran homelessness.

  • Annual CHALENG survey enhances Veteran homelessness services

    Annual CHALENG survey enhances Veteran homelessness services

    Jessica Blue-Howells discusses the importance of annual surveys in helping refine VA’s services to better assist homeless Veterans.

  • Point in Time: Mapping Veteran homelessness

    Point in Time: Mapping Veteran homelessness

    Volunteers from Birmingham VA’s mission to point in time count the homeless population and identify Veterans among them.

  • New strategies in campaign to end Veteran homelessness

    New strategies in campaign to end Veteran homelessness

    Building on successes from 2023, VA plans strategies to continue eliminating Veteran homelessness in 2024

  • Veteran homelessness increased by 7.4% in 2023

    Veteran homelessness increased by 7.4% in 2023

    Veteran homelessness rose in 2023, but not as much as overall homelessness. Significant actions taken by VA in 2022 appear to have mitigated the risk of a greater increase.

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Last updated July 11, 2025

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