HUD releases update on 2008 Continuum of Care applications
Ending Homelessness, Family homelessness Add commentsOn Wednesday April 30, 2008, HUD will release in the Federal Register “Notice of Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 Opportunity to Register and Other Important Information
for Electronic Application Submission for Continuum of Care Homeless Assistance
Programs.” This document can be accessed by clicking here.
The notice covers “detailed instructions on completing the Continuum of Care (CoC) registration process for e-snaps. This Notice also provides applicants important information, including definitions and the necessary CoC planning process, that CoC and project applicants should be familiar with prior to applying for FY2008 CoC Homeless Assistance funding. Finally, today’s Notice provides information about the major changes that HUD will make to the FY2008 CoC Homeless Assistance competition.”
Among the changes will be “HUD will continue to score Homeless Assistance applications on a 100-point scale; however, the 40 Need points previously allocated to projects will be redistributed into the existing point structure. The exact redistribution of points will be announced in the FY2008 CoC NOFA. Need will continue to be accounted for through the formula that determines Preliminary Pro Rata Need or the Hold Harmless Need amounts for the CoC.
The full notice can be accessed by clicking here. The following provides some of the highlights of this notice.
This Notice is divided into three sections. Section I describes the important overview information that CoCs and project applicants should be familiar with prior to applying for FY2008 Homeless Assistance funding. This includes pertinent definitions and the CoC planning process. Section II of this Notice provides detailed information on completing the CoC registration process in e-snaps. Finally, Section III provides information about the major changes that HUD will make to the FY2008 CoC Homeless Assistance competition. HUD hopes that this will assist CoCs in better planning their FY2008 CoC application.
HUD will make approximately $1.423 billion available through the FY2008 CoC Homeless Assistance NOFA. For FY2008, HUD is transitioning the CoC program from a paper process to an electronic process. Today’s Notice provides detailed instructions on completing the CoC registration process for e-snaps, an electronic system separate from Grants.gov. The uniform resource identifier/locater (URL) for e-snaps is www.hud.gov/esnaps.
HUD will evaluate CoCs on the following criteria:
CoC Housing, Services, and Structure;
Homeless Needs and Data Collection;
CoC Strategic Planning;
CoC Performance; and
Housing Emphasis.These criteria are not significantly changed from prior years. Therefore, CoCs are encouraged to continue planning for the FY2008 CoC Homeless Assistance competition in the same manner that they have in past years.
The FY2008 electronic registration/application process will require that each CoC select up to two persons, from the CoC Lead Agency, who are authorized to submit the CoC application and project applications to HUD, known as the CoC Lead Agency Contact(s).
Before the CoC Lead Agency Contact(s) enters e-snaps (s)he should know the following
information:The CoC’s Lead Agency
CoC contact person for receiving messages from HUD
The CoC Name and Number
The CoC’s geographic areasA CoC may create multiple Samaritan Housing Initiative projects as long as the total amount of funding requested for all initiative projects does not exceed 15 percent of the CoC’s Preliminary Pro Rata Need.
HUD will continue to score Homeless Assistance applications on a 100-point scale; however, the 40 Need points previously allocated to projects will be redistributed into the existing point structure. The exact redistribution of points will be announced in the FY2008 CoC NOFA. Need will continue to be accounted for through the formula that determines Preliminary Pro Rata Need or the Hold Harmless Need amounts for the CoC.
As directed by Congress in the FY2008 HUD Appropriation (Consolidated Appropriations
Act, 2008, H.R. 2764), HUD will implement a Rapid Re-Housing for Families Demonstration Program through the FY2008 CoC NOFA. This demonstration program will serve homeless households with dependent children.
The full notice can be accessed by clicking here.
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