November 6, 2025 3:05 a.m. 

The Department of Veterans Affairs has announced that it permanently housed nearly 52,000 homeless veterans across the country in fiscal year 2025.

That number is just over 4,000 more veterans than the VA housed last year.

A release from the Roseburg VA said the nationwide numbers include 256 veterans permanently housed by the Roseburg VA Health Care System.

This is the VA’s best national performance since it 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.

In May of 2025, the VA launched its Getting Veterans Off the Street initiative, in which every VA health care system across the country hosted dedicated outreach surge events to locate unsheltered veterans and offer them immediate access to housing programs, health care, behavioral health services and VA benefits. The initiative helped move over 25,000 unsheltered veterans to interim or permanent housing.

Roseburg VA Health Care System Executive Director Patrick Hull said, “This is life-changing and in many cases life-saving work”. Hull said, “We are proud of the progress RVAHCS is making to get veterans off the street and are redoubling our efforts to continue this momentum moving forward”.

Learn about housing initiatives and other programs supporting homeless veterans by visiting: https://www.va.gov/homeless/