FY 2025 Funding Competition

FY 2025 HUD CoC Notice of Funding Opportunity and Local Project Application Competition

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released the FY 2025 Continuum of Care Competition Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) on November 13, 2025. The Continuum of Care (CoC) Program is designed to promote a community-wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness; to provide funding efforts for efforts by eligible non-profit providers, local governments, and States to quickly rehouse homeless individuals, families, youth, and persons fleeing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking while minimizing trauma and dislocation caused by homelessness; to promote access to and effective utilization of mainstream programs by homeless individuals and families, and to optimize self-sufficiency among those experiencing homelessness.

Updates

December 22, 2025

Subject: Update on FY 2025 CoC Program NOFO Released for Public Review and Anticipated Local Competition Timeline

HUD has released a modified FY 2025 Continuum of Care (CoC) Program Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for public review only. At this time, the NOFO is subject to a preliminary injunction, and HUD has indicated that it is not yet implementing or enforcing the NOFO and has not opened the application portal. HUD has further stated that additional clarification will be issued once there is further action or direction from the courts regarding whether this version of the NOFO will stand and be formally published.

Despite this uncertainty, the revised NOFO includes significant structural changes and establishes an expedited federal timeline once implementation is authorized. Given these compressed timelines, the CoC is proactively sharing this information so that both renewal applicants and organizations considering new project applications are aware of the potential implications for the local competition. We encourage you to read through the modified NOFO issued by HUD for public review: https://www.hud.gov/sites/dfiles/CPD/documents/CoC/FY2025-Continuum-of-Care-YHDP-Renewal-NOFO.pdf. Below is a high level summary of the most impactful changes:

Major Structural Changes in the Modified FY 2025 NOFO

Establishes two federal application tracks for the CoC: a Normal Track for renewal and new non permanent housing projects, and an Extended Track for new permanent housing projects (PSH and RRH).
Limits the 30% permanent housing cap to renewal permanent housing projects only.
Maintains Tier 1 at 30% of the CoC’s Annual Renewal Demand (ARD), with HUD indicating it may award Tier 1 projects first to expedite funding.
Updates CoC Application merit review criteria and preference points, including removal of the voluntary commitment of non-profit, charitable organizations to verify immigration verification using the USCIS SAVE system and revised certifications related to drug use and injection sites.

Based on the submission deadlines outlined in the NOFO, the CoC’s local competition deadline would likely need to occur during the first week of January, with January 7 anticipated as the most feasible deadline. This timing would be necessary to allow time for the Rank and Review Committee to review, score, and rank projects in advance of HUD’s submission deadlines.

In parallel, it is important to note that the Senate has agreed to vote on adding provisions to the FY 2026 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) appropriations bill that would require HUD to renew all currently awarded FY 2024 CoC project grants for an additional 12-month period. If enacted, this extension would hold HUD to its previously communicated two-year CoC NOFO cycle and would allow grantees currently operating homelessness response projects to continue serving their communities without interruption while broader policy and legal issues are resolved. We anticipate the Senate to vote on whether to include these provisions or not, when they return on Monday, January 5th.

At this stage, no final determination has been made regarding the opening of the local competition or the outcome of the congressional action described above. However, we want to ensure that all stakeholders are informed and positioned to respond quickly should HUD authorize implementation of the NOFO, issue further guidance, or Congress finalize the proposed extension to FY 2024 grants.

During the holiday break, we strongly encourage all interested applicants to monitor their email regularly, as additional updates regarding the status of the NOFO and the CoC’s local competition timeline may be issued on short notice.

Thank you for your continued attention and flexibility as we navigate this evolving federal process. Further communication will be provided as soon as additional information becomes available.

December 8, 2025

As of 12/8/25 at 1:45 PM, the Washoe County/Reno/Sparks NV-501 FY 25 CoC local funding competition has been canceled due to the 12/8/25 notice by HUD that they have withdrawn the FY 25 CoC Notice of Funding Opportunity.

View the announcement on the HUD website.

Timeline

FY 2025 HUD Continuum of Care Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) Published: November 13, 2025
Recommended: Applicants register and join the NAEH NOFO Overview webinar
(Email sent to the Rating and Ranking Committee and general CoC membership): November 19, 2025
Local Competition Policies and Procedures & New and Renewal Project Applications Released: December 2, 2025
Mandatory New / Renewal Project Application Overview Call: December 4, 2025 at 10 AM
New and Renewal Project Applications Due to CoC: December 15, 2025
Rank and Review Committee Reviews, Meets, and Ranks Applications:
December 16, 2025 – December 29, 2025
Civitas Conducts Performance Evaluation Review for Renewal Projects and Provides Scoring to Committee Members By: December 22, 2025
Rank and Review Priority List Meeting: December 29, 2025
Applicant Notification of Project Acceptance, Denial, or Reduction/Reallocation: December 30, 2025
Deadline for Project Scoring Appeals: January 5, 2026
Recommended Project Ranking Presented to Leadership Council: January 6, 2026
e-snaps Applications Due to CoC By: January 7, 2026
Final Submission of e-snaps Application: January 12, 2026
Leadership Council Approval to Submit the CoC Application and Priority Listing
(can be conducted by email vote): January 13, 2026
Post CoC Application and Priority List on Website: January 13, 2026
Submission to HUD in e-snaps by 8:00 PM: January 14, 2026

Rating and Ranking

Please see the downloadable Ranking Procedure Document for the local competition, score, and ranking procedures for the Fiscal Year 2025 Annual CoC competition.

Forms and Applications

Please use the following fillable forms:

Resources

Applicant Workshop on December 4, 2025

View downloadable slides from the Applicant Workshop
View the Applicant Workshop recording
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Continuum of Care (CoC) Program

The CoC Program is designed to promote communitywide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness by providing funding for efforts by nonprofit providers and State and local governments and promoting access to and effect utilization of mainstream programs by homeless individuals and families.

Visit the Continuum of Care Program on the HUD Exchange

The Continuum of Care (CoC) Program (24 CFR part 578) is designed to promote a community-wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness; to provide funding for efforts by nonprofit providers, states, Indian Tribes or tribally designated housing entities (as defined in section 4 of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4103) (TDHEs)), and local governments to quickly rehouse homeless individuals, families, persons fleeing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, and youth while minimizing the trauma and dislocation caused by homelessness; to promote access to and effective utilization of mainstream programs by homeless individuals and families, and to optimize self-sufficiency among those experiencing homelessness.

Visit the Continuum of Care Program on HUD's website