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…)
22 Feb 09 2008 Supportive Housing Program Awards
This spreadsheet contains all of the SHP awards for the 2008 Continuum of Care for the State of Florida.
21 Feb 09 $5.8 Million Awarded To Homeless Services Network
HUD announced Thursday that $74,181,525 has been awarded in grants to over three hundred local homeless programs throughout Florida. Locally, nearly $5.8 million dollars is coming to homeless programs in the Orlando/Orange, Osceola, Seminole Counties Continuum of Care. This includes funding for a Rapid Re-Housing Demonstration Grant, one of only 23 such grants awarded nationally.
Clearly, we’ll be talking a lot about this news at our next CoC meeting and in the months ahead. For the full details on awards throughout the state, please visit HUD’s Homeless Resource Exchange. For local reaction to this great news, please see the Orlando Sentinel’s coverage.
