2022 HUD SUPPLEMENTAL NOFO RELEASE - Hunger & Homeless Coalition

Posted October 27, 2022

Posted: October 6, 2022

Posted: August 17, 2022

SNAPS Special NOFO: Leveraging Health Care Resources

On June 22, 2022 the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released theContinuum of Care Supplemental to Address Unsheltered and Rural Homelessness (Special NOFO). This is a first-of-its-kind opportunity to address unsheltered homelessness and homeless encampments, and it includes funds set aside to address homelessness in rural communities.

To support communities in developing their plans to address rural and unsheltered homelessness, HUD is highlighting existing TA resources through a series of listserv messages. Today’s message focuses on leveraging health care resources.

Leveraging Health Care Resources

In their Integrate Health Care blog from August 2018, the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) states that people experiencing homelessness often have serious and complex health challenges, including mental health problems and substance use disorders, chronic medical conditions like diabetes and hypertension, and infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C, and tuberculosis. Further, research from the California Policy Lab finds that these health challenges are particularly severe for people experiencing unsheltered homelessness. Those experiencing unsheltered homelessness were 25 times as likely to report having all three of the following conditions concurrently when compared to their sheltered peers: physical health condition, mental health condition, and substance abuse condition. Ensuring access to quality health care must be a part of a community’s work to end homelessness.

Combining health care resources with safe, affordable, and accessible housing improves health outcomes for people experiencing homelessness, improves their quality of life, and has the added benefit of reducing costs in the healthcare system. Health care services are more effective when a patient is stably housed, and in turn, maintaining housing is more likely if proper health care services are delivered. This is why leveraging healthcare services to support people with histories of homelessness is so important.

The COVID-19 pandemic has allowed many communities to expand their partnerships with healthcare organizations, including public health. This collaboration has built a solid foundation to continue to grow these partnerships. Examples of organizations that can help you leverage healthcare resources include Health Care for the Homeless providers, mental health and recovery treatment programs, local hospitals, and state and local health departments. When determining which organizations you should engage, it is also important to include people with lived experience in discussions on what health care partnerships and resources are needed at the table.

Listed below are some tools and fact sheets that may be of assistance as you work to leverage health care resources in your homeless system.

Federal Health and Social Service Programs That Support People Experiencing Homelessness (USICH)

Homelessness & Health: What’s the Connection (NHCHC)

COVID-19 & the HCH Community: Needed Actions from Public Health and Emergency Response Systems (NHCHC)

Building connective tissue for effective housing-health initiatives (Brookings)

Homeless in the ED: Partnerships to Improve Care, Pt. 3 – YouTube (NHCHC)

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Posted: August 17, 2022

SNAPS Special NOFO: Addressing Equity

On June 22^nd, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) releasedthe Continuum of Care Supplemental to Address Unsheltered and Rural Homelessness (Special NOFO). This is a first-of-its-kind opportunity to address unsheltered homelessness and homeless encampments including funds set aside specifically to address homelessness in rural communities.

To support communities in developing their plans to address rural and unsheltered homelessness, HUD is highlighting existing Technical Assistance (TA) and other resources through a series of listserv messages. Today’s message focuses on Advancing Equity in homelessness response systems.

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, HUD remains focused on promoting equity and inclusion through the programs we fund to prevent and end homelessness. Black, Indigenous, and all people of color as well as individuals who identify as LGBTQIA+ and individuals with disabilities are substantially overrepresented in the homeless population across the country. HUD’s efforts are aligned with the Administration’s Executive Order on Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities through the Federal Government. As stated in the Executive Order, “because advancing equity requires a systematic approach to embedding fairness in decision-making processes, executive departments and agencies (agencies) must recognize and work to redress inequities in their policies and programs that serve as barriers to equal opportunity.”

Going forward, we encourage CoCs to pursue a vision and mission that explicitly embeds equity in the operation of your homelessness system. Understanding the disparities in outcomes of individuals and families that go through your homelessness system should inform changes in policies, assessment tools and process, and prioritization practices to create more equitable outcomes.

The SNAPS team looks forward to working with you all to continue addressing racism and disparities in our homelessness response system with the goal of ending homelessness for all.

Use the links below to review equity related resources:

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Posted: August 11, 2022

Special NOFO to Address Unsheltered and Rural Homelessness: HUD Publishes Revised Detailed Instructions for CoC Application

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CONTINUUM OF CARE SUPPLEMENTAL TO ADDRESS UNSHELTERED AND RURAL HOMELESSNESS (SPECIAL NOFO)

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released a first-of-its-kind package of resources to address unsheltered homelessness and homeless encampments, including funds set aside specifically to address homelessness in rural communities.

The $322 million available under this NOFO will enhance communities’ capacity to humanely and effectively address unsheltered homelessness by connecting vulnerable individuals and families to housing, healthcare, and supportive services. This Special NOFO strongly promotes partnerships with healthcare organizations, public housing authorities and mainstream housing providers, and people with lived expertise of homelessness.

Overview

Through this Special NOFO, HUD will award funding to communities to implement coordinated approaches — grounded in Housing First and public health principles — to reduce the prevalence of unsheltered homelessness, and improve services, health outcomes, and housing stability among highly vulnerable unsheltered individuals and families. HUD expects applicant communities to partner with health and housing agencies to leverage mainstream housing and healthcare resources.

Special CoC NOFO Available Funding Opportunities

CoCs will have the opportunity to submit projects for two funding opportunities through this Special NOFO: (1) Unsheltered Homelessness Set Aside and (2) Rural Set Aside. CoCs may apply for projects under one or both funding opportunities as follows:

Unsheltered Homelessness Set Aside. Projects included in this funding opportunity may serve any geographic area within the CoC and must meet all eligibility and quality threshold requirements established in this Special NOFO. A CoC’s maximum award amount for this funding opportunity is described in Section III.J of the NOFO.
Rural Set Aside. Projects included in this funding opportunity must serve geographic areas that meet the definition of “rural area” as defined in Section III.C.2.k of the NOFO and meet all eligibility and quality threshold requirements established in this Special NOFO. CoCs whose geographic areas do not include any rural areas are not eligible for funding under this funding opportunity. A CoC’s maximum award amount for this funding opportunity is described in Section III.J of the NOFO.

Read HUD’s Continuum of Care Supplemental to Address Unsheltered and Rural Homelessness (Special NOFO)

Applications for the Special NOFO are due to HUD on October 20, 2022.

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Review NOFO Application Webinars
- Kick Off Webinar: Special NOFO to Address Unsheltered and Rural Homelessness – June 28, 2022
- Rural Focus: Special NOFO to Address Unsheltered and Rural Homelessness – June 29, 2022
Ask a question: email SpecialCoCNOFO@hud.gov

Navigational Guides

(coming soon)

Detailed Instructions

CoC Application (revised August 10, 2022)
CoC Planning
UFA Costs
Project Application
Priority Listing (coming soon)

Technical Assistance Materials

The following technical assistance materials may be helpful to communities as they prepare to respond to HUD’s NOFO. The materials are organized by major policy areas addressed in the NOFO.

Please note these resources are prepared by technical assistance providers and intended only to provide information. The contents of these documents, except when based on statutory or regulatory authority or law, do not have the force and effect of law and are not meant to bind the public in any way. These documents are intended only to provide clarity to the public regarding existing requirements under the law or agency policies.

Unsheltered Homelessness

Ending Homelessness for People Living in Encampments: Advancing the Dialogue (USICH)
Effective Police-Mental Health Collaboration Responses to People Experiencing Homelessness (Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance)
Sharing the Solutions: Police Partnerships, Homelessness, and Public Health (Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services and The Center for Court Innovation)
Federal Health and Social Service Programs That Support People Experiencing Homelessness (USICH)
7 Principles for Addressing Encampments (USICH)

Service Delivery in Rural Areas

Stakeholder Engagement: Incorporating Those with Lived Experience/Expertise

Leveraging Housing Resources

Centering Equity

General
- COVID-19 Homeless System Response: Untapped Expertise: Strategies for Inclusive Stakeholder Engagement When Developing Your Coordinated Investment Plan