FY 2026 Continuum of Care Program Competition
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Community Planning and Development
Annual competition funding local homeless-response systems. Alongside housing and services, eligible activity categories include HMIS data systems, CoC planning, and evaluation, which is the route a researcher partnered with a CoC can use.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)HUD states more than $4 billion in competitive funding is authorised across the FY2026 competition. Per-project amounts follow each Continuum's pro rata need; no per-award ceiling or floor is published on the programme page.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · AugPublished deadline: 2026-08-26 — 12 days awayProject Applications and CoC Priority Listings are due 8/26/2026 at 8:00 PM ET through e-snaps. A separate CoC Builds competition for construction and acquisition of permanent supportive housing runs alongside it.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner, Mid-career & senior
- Eligibility
- Applications come from nonprofit providers, States, Indian Tribes or Tribally Designated Housing Entities, and local governments, submitted through a local Continuum of Care in e-snaps. A university researcher cannot apply directly and must be brought in by a CoC or member agency.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- homelessness · permanent supportive housing · rapid rehousing · hmis · coordinated entry
- Apply at
- https://www.hud.gov/hud-partners/coc-program-competition
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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