HUD awards the Continuum of Care homeless assistance grants through an annual application process known as the NOFA (Notice of Funding Availability). An Exhibit I is the CoC's application to HUD.

HUD awards the Continuum of Care homeless assistance grants through an annual application process known as the NOFA (Notice of Funding Availability). An Exhibit I is the CoC's application to HUD.

This chart shows the CoC programs to be renewed in the 2012 NOFA cycle.

Annually, ECHO must update its Housing Inventory Chart, a complete list of all homeless housing programs in the CoC and submit it to HUD.

The Point-in-Time Count is a one-day, statistically reliable, unduplicated count of sheltered and unsheltered homeless individuals and families in Austin/Travis County. It is required that communities applying for HUD Continuum of Care funding to serve the homeless do a count each year in the last week of January. Programs that have beds dedicated to serve homeless individuals and families also conduct a bed inventory during the count.

Author: Cynthia Osborne, Ph.D., Associate Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT Austin