Annual Request for Funding:
Annually, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires each Continuum of Care (CoC) to apply for funding under the CoC Program Competition. The CoC Consolidated Application includes the CoC application and project applications for: new permanent supportive housing/re-housing projects, reallocated projects, renewal projects, CoC Planning projects and Unified Funding Agency (UFA) costs.
Annually, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) releases the Continuum of Care (CoC) Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA). This competition brings funds into both the City and County of Milwaukee to provide housing and supportive services to individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness. The competitive application requires each local Continuum of Care to rank, score, and select new and renewal projects. The CoC must identify and describe the processes used for ranking, scoring, and selecting eligible projects. The process should be fair and impartial, inclusive of a public notification which lists the CoC’s final determination on funded projects. In the competition, the CoC has the option to re-allocate funds from CoC renewal projects to fund new projects, and to create a new project through the bonus competition. New funding opportunities created through re-allocation, bonus, or DV bonus will only be available as stated in the NOFA document. This may change per competition. In most recent years, the NOFA stated only the following are eligible for new projects through reallocation or bonus: Permanent Supportive Housing projects that meet the requirements of DedicatedPLUS as defined in Section III.C.3.f of this year’s NOFA; new permanent housing projects where 100 percent of the beds are dedicated to individuals and families experiencing chronic homelessness; Rapid Re-Housing serving homeless individuals (including unaccompanied youth) and families, Joint TH and PH-RRH component project serving homeless individuals and families including those attempting to flee domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault or stalking who meet the criteria listed in V.B.3.a.3.c of this year’s NOFA;, new projects for dedicated HMIS; and new Supportive Services Only (SSO) projects for centralized or coordinated assessment systems.