Continuum of Care Program

The program is designed to promote community-wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness; provide funding for efforts by nonprofit providers, States, and local governments to quickly house homeless individuals and families while minimizing the

See Notice of Funding Opportunity for additional information.

States, local governments, other governmental entities and nonprofit organizations.

Homeless individuals and families with children; Recipients in Continuums of Care that have been designated by HUD as High Performing Communities (HPC) may serve persons determined to be at-risk of homelessness, based on criteria established through the present year Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO).

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.

Grants may be made available for up to one, two, three, five or fifteen years, depending upon the type of assistance provided, and subject to the availability of annual appropriations.

See Notice of Funding Opportuity [NOFO] for additional information.

Criteria for selecting applications for assistance are defined in a Notice of Funding Opportunity in the Federal Register and at www.hudexchange.info/coc.

HUD reviews applications, rates and ranks those meeting threshold requirements, and makes conditional grant awards to those applications most highly ranked, in accordance with the NOFO.

Deadlines for the CoC competition are detailed in the Registration Notice and Notice of Funding Opportunity for each fiscal year.

Information on renewals is contained in the Notice of Funding Opportunity and the application.

Applicants may appeal the results of HUD's review and selection process if they believe a HUD error has occurred. Appeals must be submitted to the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, must specify the error, and provide sufficient documentation