HUD WITHDRAWS THE COC NOFO On December 8, 2025--just before a lawsuit was to be heard in court challenging the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO)--the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) withdrew its NOFO for the CoC Competition. The link to the relevant HUD website notification is online here: https://www.hud.gov/hud-partners/community-coc. This withdrawal will allow HUD to make revisions to the NOFO and reissue it going forward. As of this posting there is no clarity as to when the NOFO will be reissued, but outside of [ Continue reading. ]
Annual CoC Funding Competition
THE 2025 COC LOCAL COMPETITION
Although the CoC NOFO has been withdrawn by the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) and NOFO related litigation is currently underway in the courts, we are confident that HUD will be reissuing a revised NOFO soon. Given that, and in anticipation of the need locally to continue moving forward, the BCCC officially announces the availability of the 2025 CoC Local Competition Application from its release on December 17, 2025 through the application deadline on December 30, 2025 at 12noon. The local BCCC application for CoC funding [ Continue reading. ]
FY2025 CONTINUUM of CARE COMPETITION ANNOUNCEMENT
HUD Releases, then Withdraws FY 2025 CoC NOFO HUD announced the release of the FY 2025 Continuum of Care (CoC) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) on November 13, 2025. This announcement opened a 60-day period for communities across the country to prepare and submit their CoC applications to seek funding to address and end homelessness. This year’s NOFO reflects several notable updates in federal priorities, including a stronger emphasis on: - Expanding access to treatment and recovery-focused services - Addressing and reducing unsheltered [ Continue reading. ]
DRAFT CONSOLIDATED APPLICATION and PRIORITY LISTING
The DRAFT CoC Consolidated Application is now available! The Draft MA-505 (New Bedford) Continuum of Care's 2022 CoC Collaborative Application and CoC Priority Listing are now available for review at the following links: The DRAFT 2022 COLLABORATIVE APPLICATION and PROJECT PRIORITY LISTING This material is being made available through this website from Monday, September 19, 2022 through Thursday, September 22, 2022 at 12noon. A vote of the CoC (through its HSPN membership) will take place during that period; all member votes are due no later than [ Continue reading. ]
COC COMPETITION IS NOW OPEN!
COC COMPETITION MA-505 COC RFP NOW AVAILABLE! On Friday, September 10, 2021, the City of New Bedford’s Continuum of Care (CoC), acting through the Office of Housing & Community Development, issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) that includes instructions and both new and renewal application forms for 2021 funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The RFP is available in fillable format here: MA-505 COC RFP 2021. Application deadline is Friday, October 1, 2021 at 12noon as detailed in the RFP. The linked RFP [ Continue reading. ]
COC COMPETITION TIMELINE 2021
The 2021 Continuum of Care (CoC) funding competition in New Bedford’s CoC runs through the November deadline set by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Check out the competition timeline for 2021 here: 2021 COMPETITION TIMELINE [ Continue reading. ]
HUD ANNOUNCES NEW BEDFORD COC AWARD!
HUD awards $1.6 million in homeless assistance funding to New Bedford Article originally published in the Standard Times February 11.2020 NEW BEDFORD – The group tasked with combating homelessness in the area has been awarded a grant from the federal Department of Housing & Urban Development under its Continuum of Care program. The Homeless Service Providers Network, led by the City’s Office of Housing & Community Development, has been awarded $1,673,610 in homeless assistance funding The grant awards announced at the end of January are [ Continue reading. ]
2019 CONSOLIDATED COC APPLICATION
You can now access a copy of New Bedford's 2019 CoC Consolidated Application! The FINAL COC APPLICATION.2019 along with the APPLICATION ATTACHMENTS are available through these links. You can also access a copy of the PROJECT PRIORITY LISTING here as well! The CoC Application was reviewed and approved in a unanimous vote by the HSPN Executive Committee on September 19, 2019. If you have any questions about any of these materials or the individual projects that will be submitted as part of the overall 2019 package to HUD before September 30, 2019, [ Continue reading. ]
COC COMMUNITY PRIORITIES for 2019
(Approved by the HSPN membership on June 20, 2019.) The City of New Bedford’s HSPN membership adopted its CoC Community Priorities at its regular meeting of June 20, 2019. Those priorities are available here: 2019 COC COMMUNITY PRIORITIES [ Continue reading. ]
2019 RANKING of COC PROPOSALS
The City of New Bedford's HSPN has received, reviewed and voted on the 2019 Final CoC Rank and Order of Projects. the HSPN's Performance Review Committee (PRC) comprised of HSPN members with no relationship--financial or otherwise--to any of the applicants for funding in the FY2019 round received, reviewed, vetted, evaluated, scored and ranked all applications for this competition. There were no new applications received in this competition round. Eight renewal applications were reviewed, six of which were for permanent housing (PH) programs (five [ Continue reading. ]
