Where to Find the State of Homelessness 2025 Data on the National Alliance to End Homelessness Site

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The State of Homelessness: 2025 Edition is published by the National Alliance to End Homelessness and is accessible from the "Homelessness in America" section of endhomelessness.org. It presents key data from the 2024 Point-in-Time (PIT) Count, the annual nationwide tally of people experiencing homelessness on a single night in January. Use it when you need a citable, national-level snapshot for research, reporting, or policy work — not for local counts or real-time estimates.

How to reach the report

  1. Go to endhomelessness.org.
  2. Open the Homelessness in America section (it appears in the site's main navigation and is listed alongside "Blog," "About Us," "Media," "Contact," "Conferences," and "Get Help").
  3. Select State of Homelessness: 2025 Edition from the items in that section.

Expected result: you land on the 2025 edition page, which the site describes as "Key data from the 2024 Point-in-Time Count."

What the report covers

The 2025 edition is framed around the same core questions the site uses to organize homelessness information:

Question What the site addresses
What causes homelessness? Shortage of affordable housing; income not keeping up with housing costs; limited access to healthcare and voluntary services; systemic racism and marginalization
Who experiences homelessness? People who cannot afford rent; people with insufficient income; people with unaddressed health conditions; marginalized groups subject to systemic disinvestment and discrimination
What solves homelessness? Improving access to affordable housing; boosting income and public benefits; ensuring access to quality healthcare, treatment, and services; creating equitable responses

The data itself comes from the 2024 PIT Count. The PIT Count is conducted annually in January and is the primary source for national homelessness figures in the United States.

What to check before citing it

  • Vintage. The 2025 edition reflects the 2024 count, not 2025. Label it accordingly in citations.
  • Scope. PIT data is a one-night snapshot and is widely understood to undercount people in unstable or hidden housing situations. Treat it as a floor, not a full census.
  • Geography. The report is national in focus. For local or continuum-of-care figures, go to the original PIT data for that area.
  • Updates. The site's "Stay Updated" section offers a Subscribe option for new research, stories, and impact content, which is the practical way to learn when a newer edition is posted.

Related material on the same site

If the 2025 edition is not the right fit, the site also hosts:

  • Homelessness Overview — a plain-language introduction to homelessness in America.
  • Key Issues pages — reducing unsheltered homelessness, de-criminalizing homelessness, expanding resources, expanding the homelessness workforce, and addressing environmental justice.
  • Policy Priorities — increasing federal funding for homelessness programs and expanding the affordable housing supply.
  • Training & Resources — webinars, online training, toolkits, research and analysis, shareable graphics, videos, and case studies, plus a technical assistance request option.

These are useful when you need context around the numbers rather than the numbers alone.