Two groups that overlap heavily and are usually counted separately.
People experiencing homelessness
HUD’s annual point-in-time count found 745,652 people experiencing homelessness in the United States on a single night in January 2025 — 479,332 in emergency shelter, transitional housing or safe haven, and 266,320 unsheltered. HUD reports the total fell about 3 percent from 2024.
The unsheltered figure is the one that matters operationally. A person in a shelter has an address of a kind, a place to receive a follow-up, and someone who notices if they stop appearing. A person who is unsheltered has none of those, which is why care has to be carried to them.
Veterans
The same count found 32,495 veterans experiencing homelessness on that night — 18,977 sheltered and 13,518 unsheltered, about four in ten unsheltered. Veterans were 5.3 percent of all homeless adults.
HUD reports a 56 percent decline since 2009, more than 40,870 fewer homeless veterans over sixteen years, and a further decrease of about one percent between 2024 and 2025 — driven mainly by a drop of 333 in unsheltered veterans. VA describes the January 2025 number as a record low since measurement began.
Mental health, stated as VA states it
| Population | Figure | Measure |
|---|---|---|
| US veterans | About 7 in 100 (7%) | PTSD at some point in life |
| US adults, general population | About 6 in 100 (6%) | PTSD at some point in life |
| Female veterans | 13 in 100 (13%) | PTSD at some point in life |
| Male veterans | 6 in 100 (6%) | PTSD at some point in life |
| Veterans using VA care | 23 in 100 (23%) | PTSD at some point in life, in one study cited by VA |
| Veterans not using VA for health care | 7 in 100 (7%) | PTSD at some point in life, same study |
VA reports past-year prevalence by service era rather than as one all-veteran figure, and notes that its era table reflects veterans alive at the time of the study. This site does not compress those into a single number, because the compression is where these figures usually go wrong.
The overlap is the point
A veteran with untreated PTSD, an injury and no fixed address does not have three problems in three systems. They have one situation, and it does not respond to being divided among agencies that each solve a third of it. Valor Medica is organized around the situation rather than around the categories.
Read more: You cannot treat someone you cannot find.
Questions
Do you have to be a veteran to be served?
Valor Medica serves veterans and neighbors experiencing homelessness. Eligibility is a question for the program, not for this foundation: eligibility on valormedica.org. Read more: You cannot treat someone you cannot find.
Why does this page use national figures rather than St. Louis ones?
Because the national point-in-time count is a defined, published, comparable measure and this site does not publish a local figure it has not sourced. A page with fewer numbers is better than a page with one wrong one. Our values. Read more: What seva asks of an organization.
Does Sevadar Foundation see patient information?
No. Clinical information stays inside the program. The walls. Read more: Why a foundation should not practice medicine.
This is a foundation page, not a clinical one. Sevadar Foundation provides no care and gives no medical advice. Everything about eligibility, services and how to be seen lives on the program’s own site. In an emergency call 911; if you are in crisis, call or text 988.
Sources
Every figure on this page is traceable. Where a source is a government report, the year the data describe is named alongside it, because it is usually not the year of publication.
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Community Planning and Development. The 2025 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress, Part 1: Point-in-Time Estimates of Homelessness. Figures describe a single night in January 2025. huduser.gov
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. “Veteran homelessness continues downward trend,” VA News, June 25, 2026. news.va.gov
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for PTSD. How Common is PTSD in Veterans? Page last updated March 26, 2025. ptsd.va.gov