CoC Funding

Apply for CoC Funding

Per U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) regulations, a primary responsibility of every Continuum of Care (CoC) is to prepare and submit an annual application in response to the HUD NOFA for CoC funding through the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act.  The process is competitive and must be collaborative and transparent.

Applying for CoC funding is a two-part process. The CoC will post a Request for Proposals (RFP) for local applications for renewal and new projects.  The project applications will be reviewed and scored. Based on the amount of funding available to the CoC, projects will be ranked by score and placed on a Project Priority list that will be submitted to HUD for funding.

The second part of the process is the CoC completing the Collaborative Application that will describe the structure and components of the CoC System, identify gaps in services and resources, provide the community’s strategies for ending homelessness, and report on system-wide performance.  The Collaborative Application and the Project Priority list are then electronically submitted to HUD for review and scoring, resulting in the annual funding award to the CoC.