The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded a $473,157 Continuum of Care (CoC) Program grant to the Georgia Housing & Finance Authority on March 11, 2025. The CoC Program is designed to promote community-wide strategies to address homelessness by providing funding for nonprofit providers, states, and local governments to quickly house homeless individuals and families while minimizing trauma and promoting self-sufficiency.
Under this Project Grant award, the Georgia Housing & Finance Authority will use the funds to support a range of eligible activities, including permanent housing, transitional housing, supportive services, Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS), and homelessness prevention efforts. The specific sub-recipient activities are unknown at the time of the award. The goal of the grant is to decrease the number of individuals and families experiencing homelessness in the Atlanta, GA metropolitan area through performance measures such as reduced length of homelessness, decreased returns to homelessness, and increased exits to permanent housing.