The continuum of care (COC) program is designed to promote community-wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness; provide funding for efforts by nonprofit providers, states, and local…

The Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development awarded The YWCA Of Greater Flint, Inc. $275,542 on April 1, 2026 under the Continuum of Care Program (CFDA 14.267), a Project Grant to support rapid rehousing and supportive services for homeless individuals and families in Flint, Michigan through March 31, 2027.

The Continuum of Care Program funds establishment and operation of projects across five components: permanent housing (including permanent supportive housing for persons with disabilities and rapid rehousing), transitional housing, supportive services only, Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS), and in some cases homelessness prevention. Eligible costs include planning activities, fiscal control and accounting by a United Funding Agency, acquisition and rehabilitation of real property, new construction, and related supportive services designed to house homeless individuals and families while minimizing trauma and promoting access to mainstream programs and self-sufficiency.

YWCA Greater Flint, a tax-exempt nonprofit based in Flint, operates emergency domestic violence shelters, sexual assault services, and rapid rehousing programs. The organization holds three HUD Continuum of Care prime grants, with prior awards in 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, and functions as a sub-recipient on domestic violence and victim services grants passed through state intermediaries under the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act, Victims of Crime Act, Violence Against Women grants, and other federal programs. The organization's funding portfolio totals $4.3 million across 46 recent federal awards, concentrated in victim services and homelessness programs.

Activities

Continuum of care program funds may be used to pay for the eligible costs used to establish and operate projects under five program components: (1) permanent housing, which includes permanent supportive housing for persons with disabilities, and rapid rehousing; (2) transitional housing; (3) supportive services only; (4) homeless management information systems (hmis), and (5) in some cases, homelessness prevention. Thirteen types of assistance may be provided through the continuum of care (COC) program: (1) COC planning activities/costs for designing and carrying out a collaborative process for the development of an application to HUD; (2) united funding agency (UFA) costs for fiscal control and accounting necessary to assure the proper disbursal of, and accounting for, federal funds awarded to subrecipients under the continuum of care program, (3) acquisition of real property (including structures) for use in the provision of housing or supportive services; (4) rehabilitation of structures to provide housing or supportive services; (5) new construction, including the building of a new structure or building an addition to an existing structure for use as supportive housing; (6) leasing of a structure or structures, or portions thereof, to provide housing or supportive services; (7) rental assistance, which may be short-term, medium-term, or long-term, as well as tenant-based, project-based, or sponsor-based, for transitional or permanent housing; (8) supportive services to assist program participants obtain and maintain housing; (9) operating costs of supportive housing; (10) costs of implementing and operating hmis; (11) project administrative costs; (12) relocation costs; and (13) indirect costs in accordance with 2 CFR parts 200, as applicable. In addition to using grant funds for the eligible costs described above, recipients and subrecipients in continuums of care designated as high performing communities may also use grant funds to provide housing relocation and stabilization services and short- and/or medium-term rental assistance to individuals and families at risk of homelessness as set forth in 24 CFR 576.103 and 24 CFR 576.104, if necessary to prevent the individual or family from becoming homeless. Limitation on use of funds: no assistance provided under program (or any state or local government funds used to supplement this assistance) may be used to replace state or local funds previously used, or designated for use, to assist homeless persons or persons at-risk of homelessness.

Expected outcomes

Decrease in the number individuals and families experiencing homelessness, more specifically using performance indicators such as the length of time homeless, returns to homelessness over time, and exits to permanent housing. COC performance profile reports can be found at https://WWW.hudexchange.info/programs/COC/COC-performance-profile-reports/.

Intended beneficiaries

Individuals and families experiencing homelessness.

Subrecipient activities

The subrecipient activities are unknown at the time of award.