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Continuum of Care Program

Program Information

Popular name

See Notice of Funding Opportunity [NOFO] for additional information.

Program Number

14.267

Program objective

The program is designed to promote community-wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness; provide funding for efforts by nonprofit providers, States, and local governments to quickly house homeless individuals and families while minimizing the trauma and dislocation caused to homeless individuals, families, and communities by homelessness; promote access to and effective utilization of mainstream programs by homeless individuals and families; and optimize self-sufficiency among individuals and families experiencing homelessness. Continuum of Care Program funds may be used to pay for the eligible costs used to establish and operate projects under five program components: (i) permanent housing, which includes permanent supportive housing for persons with disabilities, and rapid rehousing; (ii) transitional housing; (iii) supportive services only; (iv) Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS), and (v) in some cases, homelessness prevention.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2016

    No Current Data Available There were 397 CoCs funded in the amount of $1,953,210,272 for 7,593 projects across the country.

  2. 2017

    No Current Data Available

  3. 2019

    No Current Data Available

  4. 2020

    No Current Data Available

  5. 2022

    Total amount of funding awarded was $2,761,319,057. The awards included: $54 Million in grants dedicated to people fleeing Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking (DV Bonus); $76 Million in Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program renewal and replacement grants; $74 Million in planning cost grants and $3.6 Million in Unified Funding Agency costs grants.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

24 CRF Part 578, Continuum of Care Program, is published in the Federal Register.

  1. Mc Kinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11381-11389, Title IV, Subtitle C) as amended.