Across California, the housing and homelessness crisis remains one of the most urgent challenges facing communities. The results of the 2025 Point-in-Time (PIT) Homeless Counts offer a snapshot of both the strides being made and the work that remains. While Los Angeles County overall saw a second year of progress in reducing homelessness, the City of Long Beach experienced a slight increase — highlighting the critical need for affordable, supportive housing and robust prevention efforts. Nonprofit developers like Linc Housing continue to play a vital role in this landscape by creating high-quality homes and services that offer a path forward.
The results of the 2025 PIT Count released by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) show promising progress: for the second year in a row, homelessness is down across Los Angeles County. The number of people experiencing homelessness fell by 4% to 72,308 countywide, while the City of Los Angeles saw a 3.4% decline to 43,699. The most notable progress was among people living unsheltered, which dropped 9.5% across the County and 7.9% in the City. [LAHSA 2025 PIT Count]
In Long Beach, the 2025 count found 3,595 people experiencing homelessness—an increase of 219 people from the previous year. This includes 167 individuals displaced by the January Southern California wildfires. Despite the uptick, the number of people experiencing chronic homelessness declined from 50.5% to 46.7%, a sign that supportive housing and service programs are working for those with long-term needs. Financial hardship was cited as the most common cause of homelessness, rising from 37.1% to 41.2%, underscoring the role that economic instability continues to play in housing insecurity. [City of Long Beach 2025 PIT Count]
The data shows that placing people into housing works but also that preventing homelessness before it starts is equally vital. That’s why Linc continues to expand our footprint with new affordable and supportive housing. In 2025, we broke ground on several new communities and opened others, including new developments in El Monte, south Los Angeles, and Long Beach, with hundreds of homes for low-income individuals and families — including those who have experienced homelessness.
Now with 100 communities created throughout California and more new homes in the pipeline, Linc remains committed to advancing real housing solutions that address both the root causes and symptoms of homelessness — offering not just shelter, but stability, opportunity, and dignity.
