Tuscaloosa VA Reports 87 Local Homeless Vets 'Permanently Housed' Through Agency In 2025

TUSCALOOSA, AL — The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced on Wednesday that it permanently housed 51,936 homeless veterans nationwide in fiscal year 2025, including 87 through the Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center.

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The federal agency says the total marks 4,011 more veterans housed than in fiscal 2024 and is VA’s best national performance since it began tracking the number of individual veterans housed rather than the total number of permanent housing placements.

“This is life-changing and in many cases life-saving work,” said Oladipo Kukoyi, interim director of the Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center. “We are proud of the progress Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center is making to get veterans off the streets and are redoubling our efforts to continue this momentum moving forward.”

In May, VA also launched its “Getting Veterans Off the Street” initiative — a nationwide outreach effort that saw every VA health care system host surge events to find unsheltered veterans and connect them to housing programs, health care, behavioral health services and VA benefits.

The agency said that effort helped move 25,065 unsheltered veterans into interim or permanent housing.

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