The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded a $760,063 Continuum of Care (CoC) Program grant (CFDA 14.267) to the Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association (Mifa) in Memphis, Tennessee on March 11, 2025. The CoC Program is designed to promote community-wide efforts to end homelessness by providing funding to nonprofit organizations, states, and local governments to quickly house homeless individuals and families while minimizing trauma and promoting self-sufficiency.
Under this grant, Mifa will use the funds to provide a range of eligible activities, including permanent housing, transitional housing, supportive services, homeless management information systems (HMIS), and potentially homelessness prevention. The intended outcomes are to decrease the number of individuals and families experiencing homelessness by reducing the length of time spent homeless, preventing returns to homelessness, and increasing exits to permanent housing. While the specific subrecipient activities are not known at the time of the award, Mifa's role as the primary recipient indicates it will coordinate community-wide efforts to address homelessness in Memphis through the implementation of these federal housing assistance programs.