How homelessness in Arlington trends in time after the latest point

Arlington, VA-the DC region, is making progress in reducing homelessness. This emerges from the latest points of the time, which was published on Wednesday by the Metropolitan Washington Council of the governments.

Providers of towns and homeless people carried out the number of people with homelessness in January. In total, the Count recorded 9,659 people who were due to 9,774 people in the DC metropolitan region in January 2024.

The number is for people who are unshakable and live on the street, stay in an emergency accommodation or a safe harbor and live in transitional apartments with support services. The report counts separately people who are now in permanent supporting apartments or other permanent apartments.

“However, it is important to note that the number of points of the points offers a limited and imperfect perspective on the challenges, success and progress in the end of homelessness,” mentioned the council of governments mentioned in his report.

The government council found that the region has been the first overall decline since 2022 when the region had a five-year low of 7,395 homeless. However, half of the places in the region that reported the figures of homelessness had increasingly.

The count contains numbers from Washington, DC; The city of Alexandria, Arlington County, Fairfax County, Loudoun County and Prince William County in Virginia; and Montgomery County and Prince George's County in Maryland. Fairfax County's data includes numbers from the cities of Falls Church and Fairfax, and Prince William County's data include the cities of Manassas and Manassas Park.

In Arlington, the count rose from January 2024 to January 2025 from 243 to 271. The latest count is still above the five -year deep of the city from 171 in 2021. The number of homelessness from Arlington corresponds to 33 families with 44 adults and 44 children.

A total of 318 homeless veterans were counted in the entire region, a decline of 10 compared to 2024. However, there was an increase of 22 ferrallyless veterans from 2021 to 2025.

The DC region had a lower degree of homelessness during the Covid 19 pandemic due to increased federal aid and evacuation moratoriums. When this help came to an end, the number of homeless people in the DC region recorded a total of 19 percent – from 8,086 in 2021 to 9,659 in 2025.

There was a promising trend – an increase in people who switch to housing. The government council recorded 34,219 homeless or formerly homeless people in constant accommodation, quick repetition and other permanent apartments in the DC region. It is a little less than the 34,890 recorded in 2024, but far over the 24,370 people who were recorded in 2023. According to the government council, many regional places have contributed to reducing homelessness through distraction, prevention programs and permanent apartments.

Some persistent challenges that cause homelessness in the region are high housing costs, limited availability of affordable apartments, lack of living bars, record levels of the costs for the costs that pay more than half of the income for rent and racial differences.

“The report states that persistent progress in the end of the homelessness must require the maintenance of the dynamics and combat the most continuing barrier in the region: the serious lack of affordable, available and permanent apartments for your households with low -est income,” said the Council of Governments. “The achievement of permanent progress depends on continuing financing of viable housing solutions, improved data and analyzes and the development of strong service routes that support long -term apartment stability.”

The government council has coordinated the score of homelessness since 2001 and aims to increase understanding and solutions for adults and children with homelessness.