The Department of Veterans Affairs permanently housed more than 50,000 homeless veterans across the country in fiscal year 2025, the department announced on Monday.

According to a press release, that number is 4,011 more veterans than VA housed last year.

The nationwide numbers include 243 permanently housed by the Homeless Programs at the Wilkes-Barre VA Medical Center.

In 2022, VA 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, the release said.

With this new methodology, and when applied retroactively to 2019, the numbers look like this:

FY Permanent Housing Placements Unique Veterans Housed

• FY 2025: 53,839 permanent housing placement

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