The Los Angeles County 2021 Homeless Count, which would normally take place in the last week of January, was canceled by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority due to the convid-19 pandemic. The January 2020 point in time count, the previous year, found 66,436 individuals experiencing homelessness in the county, of whom, 28,852 were in the city of Los Angeles. 9,543 of those were located in Service Planning Area 6 - South Los Angeles including Compton, Paramount, and Lynwood.

The following are the slides from a November 13, 2020, presentation by Clementina Verjan of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority to a meeting of the SPA 6 Homeless Coaltion on plans for the next annual LA County Homeless Count to be held in late January 2021. Due to the covid-19 virus there are many changes from the procedures of previous counts. Street count teams will be reduced to two per car instead of the previous 3 or 4. People from the same household will be favored. A phone app in place of paper forms will be used to reduce handling.