Department of Housing and Urban Development · Housing
Continuum of Care (CoC) Program
Competitive funding to local Continuum of Care collaborative applicants for transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, and supportive services. Cities often serve as CoC lead applicants.
Whether your city can win this comes down to hard rules — population, designation, match capacity. Run your city and our AI checks it against the rules below in about 8 minutes.
Program facts
- Typical award
- $500K – $50M
- Non-federal match
- 25% (verify basis)
- Eligible entity
- U.S. cities & local governments
- Application window
- Annual NOFO; typically opens summer.
- Typical prep time
- 10–18 weeks
- Statutory authority
- McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act §401 et seq.
Who is eligible for Continuum of Care (CoC) Program?
These are the hard rules we check against. If one fails, the program is ineligible — the AI never overrides a rule.
- Cities are eligible applicants.
Renewal awards are formula-like with new project competition layered in. Amounts and timing approximate; verify directly with administering agency.
How Strategic Pursuit scores this program
Run a city dossier and our AI cross-checks ACS demographics, 5-year USAspending award history, FEMA disaster history, and CEJST/Justice40 + HUD designations against this program's rules. You get a clear eligibility, strategic, and competitive answer — with the city's own hard evidence ready to anchor the narrative — instead of a generic match badge. And if it's a no-go, you'll know before you spend the month.
The dossier isn't the AI's guesswork — eligibility is decided by the rules, and the numbers come straight from official sources. The answer your reviewer will check line by line.
No credit card. 30-day trial, 3 dossiers, 1 seat.
Related programs
- Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Entitlement (HUD)$500K – $30M
- CDBG Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) (HUD)$5M – $500M
- Section 108 Loan Guarantee (HUD)$1M – $100M
- Swift Current (FMA Set-Aside) (FEMA)$100K – $10M
- HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HUD)$500K – $15M
- Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) (HUD)$100K – $5M
Award ranges, match percentages, and windows are approximate.