The Emergency Solutions Grant program is authorized by the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act funded through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as amended by the Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act of 2009 (HEARTH Act).
Donor Name: City of Albany
State: New York
City: Albany
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/30/2026
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The goal of the ESG program is to assist at-risk and homeless households obtain and maintain appropriate permanent housing. Through the 2026-27 funding year, the City of Albany will support emergency shelters, as well as street outreach, prevention and rapid rehousing programs to meet this goal.
Eligible Program Type
- Emergency Shelter
- Outreach
- Homeless Prevention
- Rapid Re-Housing
Eligibility Criteria
- Be eligible under the definitions of the Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing (HEARTH) Act
- Coordinate activities with the Continuum of Care to carry out ESG eligible activities
- Demonstrate the capacity to participate in/and meet performance and reporting requirements under the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS)
- Strengthen the Albany County CoC by addressing gaps in residential and non-residential services
- Develop and implement a plan of homeless prevention that emphasizes “housing stabilization” (Homeless Prevention/Rapid Rehousing Programs)
- Develop goals and actions that specifically target chronic homeless, veterans, families with children and unaccompanied youth (Shelter/Outreach)
- Cultivate collaboration between the recipient agency and the Continuum of Care process
- Be able to match their ESG allocation 100% with an equal amount of other federal, state and/or local resources (cash or in-kind) which must be used or counted towards eligible ESG activities.
Program Participants
ESG program participants in Emergency Shelter and Rapid Re-housing must meet HUD’s definition of homelessness:
- An individual or family who lacks a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence as defined by §576.2(1)(i)(ii)(iii);
- An individual or family who will imminently lose their primary nighttime residence as provided by §576.2(2)(i)(ii)(iii);
- Unaccompanied youth under 25 years of age, or families with children and youth, who do not otherwise qualify as homeless under this definition but who are defined as homeless under §576.2(3)(i)(ii)(iii)(iv);
- who is fleeing, or is attempting to flee, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking or other dangerous or life-threatening conditions that relate to violence against the individual or a family member, including a child, that has either taken place within the individual’s or family’s primary residence or has made the individual or family afraid to return to their primary nighttime residence; has no other residence; and c) lacks the resources or support networks, e.g., family, friends, faithbased or other social networks, to obtain permanent housing.
For more information, visit City of Albany.
