Councilmember Nithya Raman, wearing a blazer and top, stands outdoors on a path lined with trees and bushes, smiling at the camera.

DISTRICT 4 Press Releases

COUNCIL DISTRICT 4 RECORDS SIGNIFICANT DECREASES IN UNSHELTERED HOMELESSNESS

For Immediate Release: July 24, 2026

Los Angeles, CA – Today, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) released the results of the 2026 Homeless Point In Time Count. While homelessness ticked up slightly across the City this year, Council District 4 moved decisively in the opposite direction, recording significant decreases in the number of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness. 

According to LAHSA, unsheltered homelessness in Council District 4 declined by 49% between 2025 and 2026. Dwellings – including cars, vans, RVs, tents, and makeshift shelters – declined by 41%. The council district uses an engagement and services-led strategy that connects unhoused Angelenos to case managers and matches them to beds, using regularly updated data to identify and address challenges in program implementation, make real improvements in its performance, and help more people experiencing homelessness get the care and support they need. 

“My office takes the most aggressive interventionist approach to homelessness you will find in Los Angeles,” said Councilmember Nithya Raman. “Through hands-on engagement, dedicated case management, and a relentless focus on matching people to the right services, we’ve been able to sustainably bring people off the streets and into housing. This year’s numbers show that approach is working.”

This approach can work at scale – but doing that well requires better data: systematically measuring the impact of the City’s homelessness investments, tracking performance program by program, bed by bed, and building the infrastructure to know, in real time, whether every dollar spent is advancing the goal of moving people off the streets and indoors and into permanent housing — and to course correct quickly when it isn’t.  

“As we move forward, it is time to really establish homelessness response in City Hall with oversight and accountability – which is what I’ve been pushing for through the Bureau of Homelessness Oversight,” said Councilmember Raman. “This is about creating a sustainable structure to help us meet the goals we’ve set out: getting people off the streets and into housing.”

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