Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Continuum of Care Competition and Renewal or Replacement of Youth Homeless Demonstration Program Grants | FR 6700 N 25

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The Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for Fiscal Year 2023 Continuum of Care (CoC) Competition and Renewal or Replacement of Youth Homeless Demonstration Program (YHDP) Grants is a discretionary grant program run by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). It is built around the CoC Program regulations at 24 CFR part 578 and is meant to strengthen local, community-wide systems that prevent and end homelessness. In practical terms, the NOFO funds projects and coordinated community strategies that help people who are homeless or at imminent risk move quickly into stable housing, reduce the disruption and harm that comes with homelessness, and connect households to mainstream public systems and benefits so they can stabilize long-term rather than cycle back into crisis.

The overall purpose of the funding is to support a community-wide commitment to ending homelessness. HUD emphasizes interventions that quickly re-house homeless individuals and families, support people fleeing domestic violence, and respond to the specific needs of youth experiencing homelessness. The NOFO also highlights system goals that go beyond simply placing someone into a unit: minimizing trauma and dislocation caused by homelessness, improving access to and effective use of mainstream programs (such as health care, behavioral health, income supports, child welfare, and education systems), and promoting self-sufficiency for people who have experienced homelessness. While the source text provided does not list individual project components, the CoC Program generally operates through local Continuums of Care that coordinate planning, prioritization, and performance across multiple providers, and this NOFO is framed as a competitive process tied to those local systems.

Eligibility is intentionally broad and includes many types of public and nonprofit entities that typically participate in homelessness response systems. Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education), state governments, city or township governments, county governments, special district governments, and various governmental instrumentalities. HUD also explicitly includes Native American tribal governments (federally recognized), tribally designated housing entities as defined under the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4103), Native American tribal organizations other than federally recognized tribal governments, and public housing agencies (including Indian housing authorities) as defined in 24 CFR 5.100. The NOFO language indicates that these entity types are eligible "without limitation or exclusion," signaling HUDs intent to allow the full range of typical CoC system partners to participate.

The funding instrument is a grant, and the activity category is housing. The opportunity is associated with Assistance Listing / CFDA number 14.267 (Continuum of Care Program). The award ceiling is listed as $15,000,000, and HUD anticipated a very large volume of awards (expected awards: 8,000), which is consistent with a nationwide competition that includes many renewing projects and a broad set of local CoC-backed applications across the country. The opportunity number is FR 6700 N 25, and the funding opportunity title clearly indicates that it covers both the standard CoC competition and the renewal or replacement of YHDP grants, meaning communities with YHDP-funded projects could seek continuation or replacement funding through this process as applicable.

Key dates and submission requirements are straightforward but strict. The NOFO was created on July 5, 2023, and the original closing date was September 28, 2023. Applications had to be submitted electronically by no later than 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the deadline date. HUD competitions typically enforce these cutoffs tightly, so timely submission is a core compliance requirement.

In short, this HUD NOFO represents a major annual funding pathway for local homelessness response systems under the Continuum of Care framework, with a specific emphasis on ending homelessness through coordinated community action, rapid housing stabilization for people experiencing homelessness (including youth and survivors of domestic violence), reduced trauma and disruption, and stronger connections to mainstream services that support long-term stability.

• The US Department of Housing and Urban Development in the housing sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Continuum of Care Competition and Renewal or Replacement of Youth Homeless Demonstration Program Grants" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 14.267.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jul 05, 2023.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Sep 28, 2023 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 800 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $15,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 8,000 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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