(Thank you to everyone who joined the Alliance in convincing Congress to put more money in this program – by more than $350 million!) It also includes bonus money for building a better response to the housing needs of people made homeless by domestic violence, and a “CoC bonus” allowing communities to apply for new programs (up to a 5 percent add-on) to address each community’s priorities. This NOFO (not a typo: the name has been changed from “Notice of Funding Availability” to “Notice of Funding Opportunity”) includes enough money to fund all existing programs, or, if the community chooses, to reallocate some of the money to better programs. Because of public focus on homelessness in many places, because of extensive financial resources in addition to the CoC, and because of scoring criteria that puts a focus on coordination with these other resources, this competition is set up to encourage communities to pull together a systemic, strategic effort to greatly reduce homelessness. It’s important that this process be managed in a way that preserves everyone’s mental health. The intensity of the pandemic has been a constant for one thing, for the past 17 months. For people who work on homelessness, this release has come to mark the beginning of an annual period of intense work, with each community trying to get the best possible share of the resources from the federal government’s largest homelessness program. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently released the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the Continuum of Care (CoC) program.
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