Promotes community-wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness; provides funding for efforts to quickly re-house homeless individuals and families, while minimizing trauma and dislocation; promotes access to and effective utilization of mainstream programs; and optimizes self-sufficiency among individuals and families experiencing homelessness.

Nature of Program: The Continuum of Care Program (CoC) competitively awards grants for CoC planning costs, Unified Funding Agency costs, acquisition, rehabilitation, new construction, leasing, rental assistance, supportive services, operating costs; Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS), and project administration costs. CoC program funds can be used for projects under five program components: permanent housing, transitional housing, supportive services only, HMIS, and, for CoCs designated as high-performing communities, homelessness prevention.

Applicant Eligibility: Private nonprofit organizations, states, local governments, instrumentalities of state or local governments, and public housing agencies are eligible to apply if they have been selected by the Continuum of Care for the geographic area in which they operate.

Legal Authority: Subtitle C of Title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11381-11389).

Regulations are at 24 CFR part 578.

Information Source: Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development; HUD field offices.

On the Web: https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/coc/

https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/comm_planning/homeless

Current Status: Active.