Overview
- Counting begins Tuesday night over three evenings, starting in the San Fernando Valley and metro L.A., moving to the San Gabriel Valley and East L.A. on Wednesday, and concluding Thursday in the Antelope Valley, West and South L.A., and the South Bay/Harbor, with kickoff events in downtown and Hollywood.
- Volunteers are being trained, assigned census tracts, and will record visible people, tents, and vehicles at night through an app that tracks data in real time without entering tents or looking inside vehicles.
- A specially trained USC team will conduct longer-term outreach to RVs and tents to gather demographics and verify occupancy that volunteers cannot collect during the night count.
- In response to previous undercount critiques from RAND, LAHSA has simplified training, improved mapping, extended the youth count, and started the housing inventory earlier, with validated results expected in late spring or early summer.
- The Greater L.A. tally excludes Long Beach, Pasadena, and Glendale; Pasadena runs its independent count Jan. 21–22 with all volunteer teams filled despite recent ICE activity in the city.