HMIS shows 3,270 people experienced homelessness in Nashville in January; 115 households housed that month

Hannah, HMIS lead at the collaborative applicant/OHS reporting team, told the Homelessness Planning Council that January 2025 HMIS entries recorded 3,270 people who experienced homelessness in Nashville. Hannah said the count represented 2,806 households, including 248 families and 2,558 adult‑only households.

Hannah reported that, over the prior 12 months, 10,572 unique people had experienced homelessness in Nashville. She gave demographic breakdowns for January: about 49 percent of people were Black (Hannah reported 51 percent among people experiencing homelessness and 40 percent white in the monthly data), 62 percent were men and 37 percent were women. She reported that 159 people (46 percent of those recorded) were experiencing chronic homelessness in January, 253 (8 percent) were youth aged 18–24, and 287 (9 percent) were veterans (Hannah gave these as counts in the monthly report).

On housing outcomes, Hannah said 115 people were housed in January 2025 (79 households: 14 families and 65 adult-only households) and that the 12-month total housed in Nashville was 1,902 people. She said 18 veterans and 18 youth (18–24) were housed in January and that the median or average time from HMIS entry to permanent housing was 127 days.

Council members asked about data collection at the cold-weather shelter; Hannah said the program had entered basic registration information for everyone served at the shelter but that some detailed fields were incomplete. Hannah also confirmed that HMIS collects expanded racial/ethnic categories but that some groups had counts too small to display on the standard page.

The council asked for trend visuals (for example, a scatterplot) to show changes in days-to-housing; a council member requested that the HMIS team track that metric over time for performance analysis.

Speakers and figures above reflect Hannah’s HMIS report and subsequent Q&A recorded in the meeting transcript.