Project Grant CA0520L9D002518

The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development awarded $338,106 to United States Veterans Initiative (Inglewood division) on August 1, 2026, under the Continuum of Care Program (CFDA 14.267), a Project Grant supporting community-wide efforts to end homelessness.

The award funds eligible activities under the program's Special NOFO addressing unsheltered and rural homelessness. Permissible costs include permanent supportive housing, rapid re-housing, transitional housing combined with rapid re-housing, supportive services only (including coordinated entry and street outreach), and homeless management information systems. Rural set-aside projects may additionally fund up to six months of rent or utility arrears following two months of nonpayment; short-term emergency lodging in motels or shelters through direct provision or vouchers; repairs up to ten thousand dollars per structure necessary to make housing habitable for transitional or permanent use; emergency food and clothing assistance; costs associated with federal inventory property programs for housing; and capacity building activities.

Performance runs from August 1, 2026, through July 31, 2027, with work performed in Inglewood, California. United States Veterans Initiative is a child entity within a larger organizational structure; the parent organization (United States Veterans Initiative, doing business as U.S.Vets) is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit delivering emergency housing, transitional housing, case management, and supportive services to homeless and at-risk veterans across multiple states with a primary customer relationship with the Department of Veterans Affairs.