Contingent on the release of the NOFA, the following community priorities were approved by the Board of Directors on June 16, 2011: 

Priority One: Permanent Supportive Housing that has a strong emphasis on housing (80% housing and 20% services ratio with more points for higher ratios) for persons who qualify as chronically homeless and/or are veterans.

Priority Two:   Permanent Supportive Housing with a strong housing emphasis that moves toward creating housing units as recommended by the 2010 CSH financial modeling report.  The report is available here:  http://www.caction.org/homeless/documents/AustinModelPresentation.pdf

Priority Three:  HMIS Expansion 

Because a strong HMIS system is critical to support the overall Continuum of Care, FPRN funding can be used to support expansion and improvement of the HMIS system.

Local Emphasis on:

·         Expending all resources available

·         Acquisition, construction, or renovation

·         Leveraging