Overall Homelessness in San Francisco Trending Downward City Data Shows

Harger: San Francisco's homelessness hit a 15-year low. Seattle's mayor is running the opposite experiment.

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie announced his city’s homeless count results this week, standing in front of Hope House, a transitional housing facility in San Francisco run by the Salvation Army. Hope House is sober. If you want to stay there, you don’t use. That detail matters. Because Lurie didn’t just pick a random backdrop. He picked the philosophy, and the numbers suggest the philosophy is working. San Francisco’s 2026 Point-in-Time Count:…

Overall Homelessness Trending Downward In SF

New data suggests San Francisco’s homelessness crisis may be easing. Mayor Daniel Lurie says the latest Point-in-Time count found unsheltered homelessness has fallen to its lowest level in about 15 years. The report shows overall homelessness declined four percent compared with 2024 figures. It also found a dramatic 85 percent drop in the number of people living in tents over the same period. Despite those improvements, homeless advocates cautio…

Overall homelessness in San Francisco trending downward city data shows

San Francisco's latest Point-in-Time count took place at the end of January and shows unsheltered homelessness is at its lowest level in 15 years.

New San Francisco Homeless Census Shows Slight Drop, But Methodology Also Changed

The preliminary results of this year's point-in-time homeless count, which was conducted in San Francisco in late January, are out and Mayor Daniel Lurie is touting the 4% overall drop in homelessness since 2024.The day has come where, once every two years, city leaders get to celebrate or bemoan the only really concrete number we have for the population of homeless people living on San Francisco's streets. The biennial Point-in-Time (PIT) Count…

San Francisco has lowest homeless population in 15 years

The San Francisco Mayor’s Office says news numbers show the city now has the lowest homeless population it has seen in more than a decade. Mayor Daniel Lurie on Tuesday held a news conference to announce the milestone. “I am here to announce some incredible progress,” Lurie said. “Unsheltered homelessness in San Francisco is now at its lowest level in 15 years.” According to data from the city’s 2026 point in time count, the number of unhoused p…

Mayor touts low homeless count, but critics say methodology was flawed

San Francisco’s biennial Point in Time Count was conducted differently than in past years, making it hard to compare data.