VA houses largest number of homeless Veterans in seven years VA Augusta helped house 166 Veterans locally

That number is 4,011 more Veterans than VA housed last year. 

The nationwide numbers include 166 permanently housed by VA Augusta Health Care System, exceeding its Fiscal Year 2025 housing placement goal by an astounding 184.4 percent, a placement rate that ranks third among the nation’s VA facilities.

This is VA’s best national performance since it began tracking the number of individual Veterans permanently housed instead of the total number of permanent housing placements, ensuring a more accurate count of the number of Veterans helped.

VA began using this new methodology in 2022, and when applied retroactively to 2019, the numbers look like this:

FY                              Permanent Housing Placement               Unique Veterans Housed 

FY 2025                             53,839                                                                51,936

FY 2024                             51,124                                                               47,925

FY 2023                            48,059                                                                46,051

FY 2022                           41,208                                                                 39,868

FY 2021                           39,637                                                                 38,401

FY 2020                           45,397                                                                 44,048

FY 2019                           49,462                                                                 48,133

In May 2025, VA took bold action to reduce Veteran homelessness by launching its Getting Veterans Off the Street initiative, in which every VA health care system across the country hosted dedicated outreach surge events to locate unsheltered Veterans and offer them immediate access to housing programs, health care, behavioral health services, and VA benefits. Getting Veterans Off the Street helped move 25,065 unsheltered Veterans to interim (emergency and transition) or permanent housing.

“This is life-changing and in many cases life-saving work,” said Ms. Lovetta Ford, VA Augusta Acting Executive Director. “We are proud of the progress VA Augusta is making to get Veterans off the streets and are redoubling our efforts to continue this momentum moving forward.”

These efforts complement President Trump’s May executive order to establish a National Center for Warrior Independence for Homeless Veterans on the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center campus. The National Center for Warrior Independence for Homeless Veterans aims to provide housing and support for up to 6,000 homeless Veterans from across the nation by 2028.

Every day, VA staff and community partners across the country help Veterans find permanent housing – such as apartments or houses to rent or own – often with subsidies to help make the housing more affordable. In some cases, VA teams and partners help Veterans end their homelessness by reuniting them with family and friends.

Visit VA.gov/homeless to learn about housing initiatives and other programs supporting homeless Veterans.

For more information, contact the VA Augusta Public Affairs Office at VhaAugPublicAffairs@va.gov.

If you are a Veteran who is experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness, call the National Call Center for Homeless Veterans at 877-4AID-VET ) or visit VA.gov/homeless

Will Martin, Chief of Public Affairs

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