2009 CoC Competition
Many people have been asking what’s happening with HUD’s funding for 2009 and when HSN will start accepting applications for new projects. Today, HUD held a webcast to review last year’s competition and also talk a little bit about this year’s competition.
Because HUD’s budget approval by Congress came late this year, we’re behind where we hoped to be as far as the Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) is concerned. The NOFA tells us how much money Congress has allocated nationwide for the Supportive Housing Program (SHP) through which we apply for funding every year. Once we have that, we’ll know how much we’ll make available to the CoC for new project applications. The best estimate HUD could give us for the release of the NOFA is “early summer”. They also expect the the actual CoC application that we submit to HUD would be due after Labor Day.
That means HSN would be accepting applications for new project sometime between those two milestones. Once we have more information from HUD, we’ll have a workshop to explain the application process. In the meantime, we recommend that all potential applications become familiar with HUD’s Supportive Housing Program (SHP). We recommend reviewing the SHP Desk Guide which explains in great detail the types of projects that they will fund, what you can and can’t do with the funding, and what your obligations will be if you are awarded an SHP grant.
The SHP Desk Guide is available for viewing online or for download here:
http://www.hudhre.info/index.cfm?do=viewShpDeskguide
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