29 Sep 09 2009 CoC New SHP Funding RFP
HSN has given applicants for new Supportive Housing Program (SHP) funding an extra week to prepare their grant submissions for new funding in the 2009 Continuum of Care Application.
See the revised timeline below: (more…)
04 Sep 09 2009 CoC Request For Proposals
The Homeless Services Network of Central Florida is soliciting proposals for new projects for the agency’s 2009 Continuum of Care application to the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Approximately $1 million in new funding may be awarded through this process. In order to ensure that HSN’s application is competitive with HUD national goals, projects will be given priority:
- Permanent supportive housing projects that utilize Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) acquired property
- Projects which request 25% or less of the total project budget in supportive services (client-related services)
- Projects which document HPRP, CDBG, and/or ESG funding as leveraging or where program design reflects integration with these funding streams.
Local Continuum of Care priorities include:
- Permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless individuals
- Transitional housing for homeless households with children.
- Implementation of homeless prevention center operations to serve an underserved area of the Continuum of Care
Eligible Applicants: Any unit of government or organization with a 501 (c) (3) in Orange, Seminole, or Osceola Counties may submit a proposal to provide SHP eligible services to people experiencing homelessness.
Notification Requirements: All applicants are urged to notify HSN of their intent to respond to this RFP by sending an email to rfp {at} hsncfl(.)org by September 15, 2009.
Application Submission Deadline: Monday, October 5, 2009 at 5:00 p.m.
Proposals may be mailed or hand delivered to Homeless Services Network of Central Florida, 1940 Traylor Boulevard, Orlando, FL 32804.
For complete details, please download and review the following documents:
Please direct all questions regarding the application process to rfp {at} hsncfl(.)org.
02 Sep 09 2009 Continuum of Care RFP Workshops
The Homeless Services Network 2009 Continuum of Care RFP Workshop schedule has been changed.
The meeting scheduled for September 3, 2009, at 8:30 has been canceled due to lack of meeting space.
The meeting scheduled for September 8, 2009, will be held at 2:30 p.m. at the Heart of Florida United Way, 1940 Traylor Boulevard, Orlando, FL.
An additional RFP workshop is scheduled for Friday, September 11, at 2:30 p.m. at the same location.
Due to technical problems, the RFP will be posted on HSN’s website on Friday, September 4, 2009. The closing date for applications will be October 5, 2009.
15 May 09 May CoC Meeting Cancelled
Because of Memorial Day and the shortened work week, HSN will not be holding the monthly CoC meeting, originally scheduled for Tuesday, May 26.
The next regularly scheduled CoC meeting will take place on Tuesday, June 23.
Tags: CoC
13 May 09 2009 Point in Time Count Report
HSN has released its 2009 Point in Time Count report.
The Homeless Services Network of Central Florida (HSN) is the lead agency for the Continuum of Care encompassing Orange, Osceola, Seminole Counties and the City of Orlando. Each year, HSN is required by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to complete an annual count of the homeless in the Continuum which includes 2,500 square miles of urban, suburban and rural settings.
The data is submitted as a part of HSN’s competitive Continuum of Care funding application which includes requests for homeless services funding between $4.8 million and $6.5 million annually from HUD. It is also reported to the State of Florida’s Office on Homelessness for aggregation into an annual statewide report. County governments use the data in the preparation of their five year HUD Consolidated Plans and one-year action plans for their Community Development and Housing Departments.
HSN has partnered with the University of Central Florida’s Institute on Social Policy and Research, which is headed by Dr. Jim Wright, a national expert on homelessness, to craft the tools used for the survey and aggregate the data that is collected.
Tags: CoC
05 May 09 Florida State Legislature To Cut Funding for Homelessness
This just in from Tom Pierce at the Office on Homelessness in Tallahassee:
The Conference Committee on the Budget completed its work and today their
report on the final state budget for FY 2009-2010 was released. The budget
report issued will be ready for adoption by the Legislature on Friday, May
8, 2009.I regret to report that the homeless grant in aid program has NOT been
funded for the coming year. The Legislature made the choice to delete the
$1,138,534 in General Revenue funds for the program for FY09-10. In this
current year, the grant in aid program had been reduced by 4% from the base
budget of $1,185,990.The Challenge Grant is funded for next year at $2,031,354 from General
Revenue. The Homeless Housing Assistance Grant is continued at the
$5,000,000 level. The funding for this grant was changed from a transfer
of doc stamp revenue from the Local Government Housing Trust Fund, to
non-recurring General Revenue for next year.The Office is still working through the rest of the budget details, and
will share our findings just as soon as we have them confirmed.Tom Pierce
Office on Homelessness
Tallahassee
850-922-9850 SC 292-9850
Tags: CoC
22 Apr 09 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
Feel free to post questions here in the comments or to fill out a contact form.
03 Apr 09 HSN’s Strategic Goals
In addressing the national objectives set forth by HUD (see our previous post), HSN has ongoing strategic goals which frame the action plans created for each year’s Continuum of Care application. These goals may change as new research and data about our Continuum of Care dictate, and are reviewed annually. (more…)
Tags: CoC
03 Apr 09 Save the Date for the 3rd Annual Homeless & Supportive Housing Conference
The following comes to us from the Florida Coalition for the Homeless:
The Florida Coalition for the Homeless and the Florida Supportive Housing Coalition are proud to announce the 3rd annual homeless and supportive housing conference! We are excited about this year’s conference, “Changing times: Creative Vision for Housing and Services”, on October 26-27, 2009. (more…)
Tags: CoC
20 Mar 09 CoC 10-Year Plan, Objectives and Action Steps
We have received several calls recently with the same theme: What are the objectives of the Continuum of Care?
It seems the City of Orlando has asked Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) applicants to demonstrate how their agency’s ESG project outcomes relate to the CoC’s objectives.
In the 2008 CoC application for Supportive Housing Program (SHP) funding, HUD established five national objectives to end chronic homelessness and move families and individuals to permanent housing: (more…)
