The MA-505 Bristol County Continuum of Care (CoC,) is concerned about the safety and well-being of all persons accessing or receiving Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) funded under the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) through its CoC Program. The CoC Program necessitates certain conditions be met to permit the transfer of PSH project participants from one project to another. This concern extends to project participants in CoC funded housing who are victims of domestic [ Continue reading. ]
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2026 PIT AND HIC DATA PRESENTATION
The City of New Bedford's Office of Housing & Community Development, acting in its capacity as the Continuum of Care's (CoC's) Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) lead, and on behalf of the CoC, has completed its 2026 “Point In Time” (PIT) count creating a census of those individuals and families experiencing homelessness within the Continuum of Care (all of Bristol County except for Fall River). The data includes those who were both sheltered (living in emergency or transitional [ Continue reading. ]
2026 STREETSHEETS NOW AVAILABLE!
On behalf of the BCCC, the City of New Bedford's Office of Housing & Community Development has released the printed version of the 2026 StreetSheets and StreetSheet SNAPSHOT. The printed versions provide resources within the Bristol County Continuum of Care. Spanish and Portuguese versions of these StreetSheets will be released on this website in late Spring 2026. FOR GREATER NEW BEDFORD: The GREATER NEW BEDFORD AREA SNAPSHOT 2026 available here (English). The GREATER NEW BEDFORD AREA [ Continue reading. ]
2025 PIT and HIC DATA PRESENTATION
The City of New Bedford's Office of Housing & Community Development, acting in its capacity as the Continuum of Care's (CoC's) Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) lead, and on behalf of the CoC, has completed its annual “Point In Time” (PIT) count creating a census of those individuals and families experiencing homelessness within the Continuum of Care (all of Bristol County except for Fall River). The data includes those who were both sheltered (living in emergency or transitional [ Continue reading. ]
2025 STREETSHEETS ARE NOW AVAILABLE
The City of New Bedford's Office of Housing & Community Development has released the printed version of the 2025 StreetSheet. The printed version provides resources for and within the Greater New Bedford area. Printed StreetSheets are available upon request by contacting Jennifer.Clarke@newbedford-ma.gov. (Copies are available while quantities last). If you are looking for resources in all areas of the Bristol County Continuum of Care, please access our RESOURCES page to explore listed [ Continue reading. ]
CITY RELEASES COMPREHENSIVE REPORT ON HOMELESS RESPONSE SYSTEM
The City of New Bedford has released a landmark report detailing the City's response to homelessness and identifying key areas for improvement. At the suggestion of service providers, the Mitchell Administration allocated American Recovery Plan Act (ARPA) funds to commission the report, conducted by the Technical Assistance Collaborative (TAC), a leading expert nationally in human services, health care, and homelessness. The report provides a data-driven analysis of homelessness which was [ Continue reading. ]
RACIAL EQUITY PLAN NOW AVAILABLE!
Racial Equity Assessment & Action Plan The HSPN used CoC Planning funds from the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development to develop a Racial Equity Assessment and Action Plan in late 2023 and completed this effort in early 2024. This work was undertaken by the nationally-recognized Racial Equity Partners (REP) with the support of the HSPN Racial Equity Workgroup. The HSPN is grateful to the REP and Workgroup for developing such a meaningful document and will now begin the work [ Continue reading. ]
HSPN Publishes Summary of 2023 HUD AHAR
The 2023 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) Part 1 provides a Point In Time (PIT) and Housing Inventory Count (HIC) Estimates of Homelessness in the United States. The 2023 data was released December 18, 2023. The 2023 AHAR outlines key findings of the PIT Count and HIC conducted in January 2023. The report, itself, “provides national, state and CoC level PIT and HIC estimates of homelessness as well as estimates of chronically homeless persons, homeless veterans and homeless children [ Continue reading. ]
RESOURCES & TRAINING on LGBTQI+ NOW AVAILABLE!
The HSPN has produced and distributed a flyer highlighting training and resource opportunities around the Intersection of Homelessness and LGBTQI+. You may access the LGBTQ+ HOMELESS TRAINING RESOURCE FLYER which provides multiple links to HUD Exchange resources addressing LGBTQI+ and its intersection with homelessness. Resources include Equal Access relative to Gender Identity, Equal Access to Housing in HUD programs regardless of Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity and Equal Access [ Continue reading. ]
2023 Data is Now Available!
The City of New Bedford has completed its annual “Point In Time” (PIT) count creating a census of those individuals and families experiencing homelessness within the city, both sheltered (living in emergency or transitional housing) and unsheltered (on the streets/in places not meant for human habitation). Concurrent with that has been the development of the city’s “Housing Inventory Count” (HIC) that provides an inventory of specific emergency, transitional and permanent housing opportunities [ Continue reading. ]
