HUD’s Confusing Continuum of Care (CoC) Program Explained

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HUD just released the?FY ’13 Continuum of Care (CoC) Program NOFA, with?$1.6 billion?available for an array of housing and related services for the homeless. But the process of trying to access that money is deliberately confusing. We’re going to explain how it works in this post, mostly for our own amusement but also in an attempt to educate readers. “CoC” is the acronym for the federal Continuum of Care program. But “CoC” is also the acronym used for local Continuum of Care?programs, as well as local or regional Continuum of Care?bodies. To access federal CoC grant funds to help implement the local CoC program, potential applicants—like garden-variety nonprofits—have to go through the local CoC body, which is usually a joint powers authority set up to access federal CoC dollars by local governments, or, in some cases, the state itself. That’s a lot of CoCs, any way you look at it. Click here to continue reading: https://seliger.com/2012/11/11/huds-confusing-continuum-of-care-coc-program-explained/