is located, explained Bevin Kuhn, acting deputy chief analytics officer for LAHSA. Nonprofit partners working on county and city homeless programs will be able to access the data to get a better feel for what is available, she said.

• A dashboard section on “interim housing” can show whether programs are meeting target occupancy rates, she explained. Interim housing includes crisis housing (often motels), safe parking and winter shelters. The data will show where temporary rooms are available or offline.

Kuhn said the rollout is a “beta system” that needs more testing and refinement. LAHSA is asking the public to provide feedback. Some of the dashboards will be available in six to eight weeks, or possibly sooner, said Paul Rubenstein, LAHSA’s deputy chief external relations officer. “This is an unprecedented shift in transparency,” he said.

LAHSA recorded 75,312 homeless people in the 2024 count. The count showed that people living in tents, vehicles, and makeshift shelters dropped by 5.1%, while people living in shelters rose by 12.7%. The city of Los Angeles saw a 10.4% drop in unsheltered homeless people and a 17.7% increase in sheltered homeless people.

The count underscored the importance of programs that moved homeless people from the streets to shelters, also known as interim housing.

Questions have been raised about people in temporary housing, with some critics citing delays in getting them into permanent housing.

According to Kuhn, the new data banks will explain delays in moving people from encampments to interim housing and then from interim housing to permanent housing.

One data point highlights how many people have filled out the documents needed to get into a home, such as acquiring a Social Security card and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Section 8 housing eligibility.

The new data showed the average wait for getting into interim housing has dropped from 90 days to about 60 days, Kuhn reported. The data was mostly from 2023. It showed that on average it took 262 days for a person to exit interim housing and move to permanent housing, Kuhn reported.

“We can look at what may slow it down,” Adams Kellum said.