Tehama County report: unsheltered homelessness down while overall point‑in‑time count rises to 334

Andrea Curry, Tehama County Continuum of Care, presented the county’s 2025 point‑in‑time count to the Red Bluff City Council, reporting a total of 334 people counted on Jan. 29, 2025 — 108 in sheltered settings and 226 unsheltered.

Curry said unsheltered homelessness declined by about 9% from 2023 to 2025, but overall homelessness rose because shelter capacity increased. “Our emergency shelter bed capacity more than doubled” between counts, she said, and supported bed capacity across emergency, transitional and permanent supportive housing rose roughly 60 percent.

The nut graf: the shift in where people are counted matters for local policy. Council members heard that new shelter capacity and added case management helped move people off streets into temporary or supported beds, but that rising inflow to the system — new households…