The City of Tucson receives Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) program funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on an annual basis.
Donor Name: City of Tucson
State: Arizona
City: Tucson
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/20/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
ESG funds are awarded to local communities to achieve the following federal goals:
- Engage individuals and families experiencing unsheltered homelessness
- Improve the number and quality of emergency shelters for individuals and families experiencing homelessness, help operate these shelters, and provide essential services to shelter residents
- Rapidly rehouse individuals and families experiencing homelessness
- Prevent individuals and families from becoming homeless.
Funding Priorities
- P-CHIP Goal A: Solving Homelessness
- Every person deserves a safe place to live and the opportunity to thrive. Achieving this requires a strong community safety net and strategies aimed at preventing low-income households from becoming homeless, quickly rehousing people experiencing homelessness, and removing barriers that lead to repeat episodes of homelessness. Tucson’s homeless response system possesses many of the essential elements of an effective approach, but there are many opportunities to improve its efficiency and impact.
- P-CHIP Goal B: Optimize Behavioral, Emotional, and Physical Health
- Health is influenced by various factors, including social and economic conditions, known as the Social Determinants of Health. These factors disproportionately impact racial and ethnic minority groups, putting them at higher risk for serious illnesses. The goals and strategies under this priority aim to address these inequities and improve the overall conditions that affect health and quality of life for Tucson residents.
- P-CHIP Goal C: Reduce Poverty and Ensure Dignity for All
- Poverty is closely linked with nearly all the challenges identified in the P-CHIP and is one of Tucson’s greatest challenges. Tucson’s poverty rate is significantly higher than that of Arizona and the United States. People living in impoverished households often struggle to afford basic needs, such as housing, food, transportation, health care, and childcare. Poverty destabilizes families, affects access to opportunity, and leads to undesirable outcomes, such as hunger and homelessness. Optimizing opportunity and enabling all people to perform to the best of their abilities benefits the entire community and improves well-being.
- P-CHIP Goal D: Support Equitable and Sustainable Neighborhoods
- This priority aims to create and sustain inclusive, resilient communities where residents have the opportunity to thrive, with a strong commitment to reducing disparities and promoting long-term sustainability. This includes access to affordable housing, transportation, and other essential services.
- P-CHIP Goal E: Increase Affordable and Attainable Housing Options
- Affordable housing emerged as the most critical challenge in the P-CHIP survey. HCD is committed to using its resources to partner in a communitywide effort to address the current shortage of affordable housing, as well as other housing needs to make sure all have an affordable, healthy, sustainable, and safe home.
- P-CHIP Goal F: Expand Homebuyer and Homeowner Assistance Opportunities
- Homeownership can provide financial gains and security over time, stability, and a way to build intergenerational wealth. Investing in affordable homeownership opportunities, creating pathways to homeownership, and supporting current low-income homeowners are important components in addressing the affordable housing shortfall and advancing housing equity across the city.
- P-CHIP Goal G: Ensure Healthy, Sustainable, and Safe Homes
- In addition to being affordable, housing must also support families’ health and safety by reducing exposure to environmental hazards and increasing climate resiliency. Similarly, reducing threats to stable housing like evictions or foreclosures, and increasing the ability of older adults to stay in their homes as they age are important goals to increase housing stability.
- P-CHIP Goal H: Improve Equity in Housing
- Structural racism in U.S. housing policies has contributed to racial disparities and housing segregation nationally and locally. Improving housing equity aims to address housing segregation and advance the City’s commitment to advancing equity.
Eligible Project Types
The City of Tucson invites proposals from eligible not-for-profit entities with capacity to provide the following eligible ESG activities:
- Emergency Shelter – Domestic Violence Shelter: The City invites applications from organizations with appropriate qualifications and experience to provide ESG-eligible emergency shelter services for individuals and families who are fleeing or attempting to flee domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and/or human trafficking, and who lack other resources to maintain housing stability.
- Emergency Shelter – Unsheltered Persons: The City invites applications from organizations with appropriate qualifications and experience to provide ESG-eligible emergency shelter assistance for individuals and families experiencing unsheltered homelessness. Emergency Shelter programs may include overnight and day shelter activities, including day shelter programs providing heat relief during the summer provided that all ESG requirements are met.
- Rapid Rehousing: The City invites applications from organizations with appropriate qualifications and experience to provide ESG-eligible rapid rehousing assistance for individuals and families experiencing homelessness. ESG rapid rehousing program funds may be used to provide housing relocation and stabilization services and short and/or medium-term rental assistance as necessary to help participating individuals and families move as quickly as possible into permanent housing and achieve stability in that housing.
Funding Information
The Fiscal Year 2026 Emergency Solutions Grant funding amount will not be published by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development until Spring/Summer 2025. Based on prior year allocations, the City of Tucson anticipates subawarding approximately $297,272 in ESG Program funds to not-for-profit subrecipients annually. This amount is subject to change based on the final HUD funding award.
- Emergency Shelter for Unsheltered Persons
- Estimated Funding Available: $248,538
- Minimum Request: $50,000
- Maximum Request: $248,538
- Rapid Rehousing
- Estimated Funding Available: $48,734
- Minimum Request: $25,000
- Maximum Request: $48,734.
Grant Period
The initial performance period for funding issued under this solicitation shall be July 1, 2025-June 30, 2026.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants include not-for-profit agencies with IRS 501(c)(3) designation and City of Tucson Departments. Grassroots organizations without 501(c)(3) status may apply with a fiscal agent who meets all eligibility requirements. Applicants should have a minimum of at least 3 years of experience administering the same or similar projects and scopes of work as are solicited through this request for proposals prior to application.
- All applicants must be registered with the U.S. System for Award Management (SAM) and not be suspended or disbarred from doing business with the Federal government as of the date of application and must maintain all eligibility requirements throughout the period of performance. Applicants must have a valid SAM Unique Entity Identifier at the time of application.
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