ACT NOW: Hold HUD Accountable and Protect CoC Program Funding

HUD has continued to be vague about its plans for a new FY2025 CoC Program competition since its email communication on July 3. But it is evident from the President’s FY2026 Budget Request, Executive Orders, and the latest re-issuance of HUD’s CoC Builds NOFO that HUD may attempt to use this NOFO to upend the way in which communities respond to homelessness. 

Not only will a new NOFO at this point result in significant delays, but based on the recent criteria included in the re-issued CoC Builds NOFO, it could also include new onerous conditions that are unrelated to homeless services that could place these critical resources at risk in communities across the country—red, blue, and purple alike.

Such disruption would upend the very backbone of the nation’s homelessness response, destabilizing programs and displacing and putting at risk the people that they serve. Landlords who rely on rent, program staff, and community partnerships would all be collateral damage. 

Congress must prevent this and hold HUD accountable—and quickly!  

We need your voice TODAY to urge Congress to intervene and ensure HUD keeps its past commitments to a two-year NOFO and not allow them to use unfair and problematic criteria to make funding decisions for homelessness funding.  

Advocacy Materials

Use the resources below to inform your messages to Congress.

• CEO Corner on FY2025 Continuum of Care Builds Notice of Funding Opportunity
• Protect the two-year CoC program NOFO

• Court Blocks Trump-Vance Administration’s Unlawful Housing Grant Restrictions – National Alliance to End Homelessness