Secretary Fudge Announces Homelessness Funding to be Available in July

While hosting Homelessness Roundtable in Hawaii, Secretary previews upcoming investments

WASHINGTON - The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will soon issue a Notice of Funding Opportunity to provide approximately $3.1 billion under the Continuum of Care (CoC) program—the largest-ever single-year investment through this program to help communities address homelessness. HUD Secretary Marcia L. Fudge announced this funding opportunity during her trip to Hawaii, where Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders face the highest rate of homelessness in the nation at 121 per 10,000 people.

The funds will support efforts by Continuums of Care, nonprofit providers, States, Indian Tribes or Tribally Designated Housing Entities, and local governments to quickly rehouse homeless individuals; families; veterans and their families; persons fleeing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking; and youth while minimizing the trauma and dislocation caused by homelessness. The program will also promote access to and effective utilization of affordable housing programs and other health and supportive services by homeless individuals and families.

"This largest ever $3.1 billion investment in the Continuum of Care program is an important step in the fight against homelessness," said Secretary Fudge. "Investments in local organizations that can connect people experiencing homelessness to permanent housing and address their services needs is a part of the solution and must be coupled with efforts to prevent homelessness and to increase the supply of affordable housing. HUD will continue to demonstrate its commitment to creating affordable housing for homeless individuals and families here in Hawaii and across the country."

This increase in annual funding reflects the Biden-Harris Administration's ongoing commitment to address the nation's homelessness crisis with the urgency it requires and builds on other HUD efforts to address homelessness. From Day One, the Biden-Harris Administration has made addressing homelessness a top priority, including historic investments in the American Rescue Plan in the form of Emergency Housing Vouchers and special HOME Investment Partnerships-ARP grants. As the Administration's first Chair of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH), Secretary Fudge launched House America, partnering with state and local leaders from 105 states and communities to collectively rehouse over 100,000 households experiencing homelessness and add over 40,000 new units of deeply affordable and supportive housing into the development pipeline.

Under Secretary Fudge's leadership, USICH developed All In: the Biden-Harris Administration's Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness, which is the most ambitious effort by any administration to assist people currently experiencing homelessness, prevent people from becoming homeless, address inequities that disproportionately impact underserved communities, and help cities and states reduce unsheltered homelessness.

The Administration has begun implementing All In. Earlier this year, HUD released a first-of-its-kind package of grants totaling $486 million and approximately 3,300 housing vouchers to help 62 communities address unsheltered homelessness and homeless encampments. Just last month, the Administration launched the ALL INside initiative, through which the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) and its 19 federal member agencies will partner with state and local governments to strengthen and accelerate local efforts to get unsheltered people into homes in six places: Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Phoenix Metro, Seattle, and the State of California. These recent steps are on top of President Biden's American Rescue Plan (ARP)— the largest single-year investment in ending homelessness in U.S. history—which helped prevent a surge of homelessness during 2021, as reflected in the 2022 Point-in-Time count.

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