Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) Subcommittee, announced that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has finally heeded her call to release its long-overdue homelessness data. On Friday, two weeks after Senator Gillibrand grilled HUD Secretary Scott Turner about the missing data, HUD published part 1 of its 2025 Annual Homelessness Assessment report. The report found that homelessness fell by 3% nationwide between January 2024 and January 2025 – the last year of President Joe Biden’s tenure. While both sheltered and unsheltered homelessness fell, there were concerning increases for certain populations, particularly the 6.8% increase among people aged 65 and older.
“The delay of this report is a complete disservice to the American people,” said Senator Gillibrand. “It’s clear HUD was hiding the ball and not doing their job. This report wasn’t finalized just in the last two weeks. Americans deserve transparency and accountability from their government, not excuses. I will keep pushing for answers from HUD leadership on how their supposed plans to tackle the housing crisis square with their deep cuts to housing programs.”
At a THUD Subcommittee hearing on May 14th, Senator Gillibrand questioned Secretary Turner about his withholding of the 2025 homelessness report. When the point-in-time estimates were finally published on May 29th, it marked the latest release of this data in over a decade.
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