Ada County, ID – Our Path Home released results for the 2025 Annual Point-in-Time (PIT) Count that show a two percent decrease in homelessness in Ada County compared to last year.
The PIT Count is a voluntary survey of community members, including families with children, who are either accessing emergency shelter or who are spending the night unsheltered, on the street in Ada County. This annual count, conducted each January, is reported to the federal government to help set the federal budget, and locally these numbers help to identify homelessness trends over time and give insight into the effectiveness of our community’s housing programs and homeless services.
Our Path Home’s 2025 PIT Count found a total of 772 community members in Ada County experiencing homelessness on the night of January 19, 2025. The results reflect a small decrease in those surveyed experiencing homelessness from 2024.
Our Path Home also completes the Housing Inventory Count (HIC) on the same night, reporting on the number of beds dedicated to people experiencing homelessness in Ada County. The HIC includes beds in different types of projects, from emergency shelters to permanent housing.
This year’s HIC shows a notable increase of rapid rehousing beds, driven by CATCH’s Taking Root program which housed more families in January this year than during last year’s count, offering 50% more beds than last year (from 109 to 161 beds).
A large driver of that growth is thanks to several years of increased federal funding for the program that allowed CATCH to provide a greater number of beds to families fleeing domestic violence (from 47 to 65 beds). Another part of the growth can be attributed to the Campaign to End Family Homelessness, which last year funded an expansion of the Taking Root program at over $700,000 with private funding allocated to CATCH to address family homelessness in Ada County.
"We've been so grateful for investments from the federal government and the community's support of our work to end family homelessness. It's moving the needle for families in Ada County," said Stephanie Day, CATCH Executive Director. “As we near the end of Campaign funding and the federal landscape is rapidly changing, CATCH is asking our community to lean in to ensure our program can help just as many families, or more, this year.”
Our Path Home Point-In-Time (PIT) and Housing Inventory Chart (HIC) Data
For more information on the Point-in-Time Count, visit this PIT Dashboard
For more information on the Housing Inventory Chart, visit this HIC Dashboard
For more information on trends over time, visit the PIT/HIC Dashboard
Our Path Home is the public/private partnership comprising more than 40 agencies working together in Ada County to make homelessness an increasingly rare, brief, and singular experience for our neighbors. For more information on Our Path Home, please visit ourpathhome.org.