The Department of Housing and Urban Development is excited to announce the Continuum of Care Competition and Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program Grant.
Donor Name: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/26/2026
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The 2026 CoC Program NOFO funds the renewal of existing CoC grants, including DV Renewal projects and projects originally funded under the Special NOFO to Address Unsheltered and Rural Homelessness, and the competitive renewal or replacement of existing YHDP grants that are expiring in Calendar Year 2027. This NOFO also provides funding for new projects, including those created with DV Bonus, CoC Bonus, and the reallocation of existing renewal projects.
The Continuum of Care (CoC) Program is a national competition between geographic areas designed to:
- Promote a community-wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness;
- Provide funding for efforts by nonprofit providers, States, Indian Tribes or Tribally Designated Housing Entities and local governments to quickly rehouse homeless individuals and families, persons experiencing trauma or a lack of safety related to, or fleeing or attempting to flee domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, and homeless youth while minimizing the trauma and dislocation caused by homelessness;
- Promote access to, and effective utilization of, mainstream programs and programs funded with State or local resources; and
- Optimize self-sufficiency among homeless individuals and families.
Goals and Objectives
- “Housing First” has been a profound failure by any measure. Far from ending homelessness as promised, since the policy was first mandated by HUD in 2013:
- Literal homelessness (on the street, in emergency shelters, or in transitional housing) has increased 27%,
- Chronic homelessness has increased 80.5%, and
- Unsheltered homelessness has increased 36.1%.1
- This is despite the fact that, since 2013:
- Taxpayer funded “permanent housing” beds have increased 150.9%2,
- Rapid rehousing” was created, artificially lowering numbers by recategorizing people in short-term assistance as “permanently housed,” and
- CoC spending has increased 111%.3
Funding Information
Funding of approximately $4,040,000,000.
Grant Period
12 months
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible Entity Types:
- State governments
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments Federally recognized
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Native American tribal organizations other than Federally recognized tribal governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Additional Information on Eligibility
- You cannot apply as an individual.
- For-profit entities are not eligible to apply for grants or to be subrecipients of grant funds.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
