Tulsa reports 820 Safe Move exits, nears 300-person housing goal

The City of Tulsa reported 820 exits from homelessness through Safe Move in 2026, 480 short of its 1,300 year-end target. The city also said it was nearing its separate goal of helping 300 people move from long-term encampments into housing and expected to surpass that milestone in the coming weeks.

Progress against two targets i

The 1,300 target combines 300 exits through encampment-to-housing efforts and 1,000 through rapid-exit strategies. The reported 820 is about 63% of the overall goal. The city identified 538 as rapid exits, about 54% of that strategy’s target, leaving 462 to reach that component.

For the encampment-to-housing goal, the city described progress as nearing 300 but did not give an exact current count. The 820 total therefore does not, by itself, show how many people have reached that specific milestone.

A local report broke down the 820 exits this way:

The three categories add to 820. The Oklahoma Eagle/Tulsa Flyer also reported that 170 exits occurred since September. Safe Move figures were discussed at a City Council Urban and Economic Development Committee meeting on Oct. 28, the day before the city’s update.

Admiral Corridor sites and housing connections i

Along Tulsa’s Admiral Corridor, from Yale Avenue to Memorial Drive, the city said 13 encampments had been decommissioned. It reported that 85 people from the effort had been housed and/or were being connected with housing, without separating those groups.

The 13 sites are included in the 25 long-term encampments the city said Safe Move had closed this year. As of its Oct. 29 update, none had returned to long-term encampment status. That status does not establish that outdoor sleeping had ended at every site.

The 820 figure measures reported Safe Move activity, not Tulsa’s citywide number of people experiencing homelessness; by itself, it does not establish a citywide decline. The city said it would continue the program toward its 1,300-exit goal by the end of 2026.