Homelessness decreased in Redlands for the second consecutive year, the city announced earlier this month.
According to San Bernardino County’s 2025 Homeless Point-in-Time-Count, the total number of homeless individuals counted in the city on Jan. 23 was down 31% from the previous year’s survey. Participants counted 146 city residents experiencing homelessness, down 67 from 2024’s total of 213.
The number of unsheltered people — those living on streets, in vehicles or in tents with no roof over their heads — was down by 28%, totaling 104 individuals.
This year’s decrease follows a 34% reduction in homelessness in 2024.
City Manager Charlie Duggan credited the improvement to the intensive efforts the city continues to make to address the problem of homelessness and to provide shelter and services to the city’s homeless population.
“Homelessness remains a top concern among our residents,” Duggan said in a statement. “That’s why we have continued marshalling our resources to address the issue. Two years of reduction in homelessness, according to the Point-In-Time-Count numbers, demonstrate that we are on the right track and making significant progress.
In 2022, the City Council established the Homeless Solutions Office, hiring an agency manager to coordinate resources and provide outreach services, officials said. That same year, the city received a $30 million Homekey grant from the state that funded the conversion a former motel into the Step Up in Redlands supportive housing facility.
Step Up in Redlands opened in January 2023 and was soon fully occupied, providing permanent housing and supportive services to more than 100 people, according to the city.
In the past three years, Redlands has received more than $10 million in additional state grants and $50,000 from the Kaiser Foundation, officials said.
The funding paid for expanding the city’s homeless outreach teams, providing more shelter beds and rapid rehousing, employment training and assistance, treatment programs and to support agreements with nonprofits such as the Salvation Army, Family Service Association, Goodwill, Youth Hope and other local organizations.
The city also noted collaborative efforts and strategic planning with the San Bernardino County Office of Homeless Services, the county sheriff’s Homeless Outreach and Proactive Enforcement, or HOPE Team and the Central Valley Homeless Provider Network.
Information from the point-in-time count is used by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to allocate funding for homeless services to states, cities and counties.
