Giving Compass' Take:

• Steve Berg describes the trends that will dominate NOFA for Continuum of Care funding for 2018.

• What can homelessness funders learn from this? How will these trends play out over the coming years? 

• Learn more about funding homelessness. 

People are hard at work on the NOFA for Continuum of Care funding for 2018, and this blog post kicks off a set of tools the Alliance will produce to help. We encourage all readers to also review resources from other partners, including HUD and USICH. Both organizations are producing resources to answer questions about the specifics in this year’s NOFA, and HUD’s Ask-A-Question feature will be hard at work.

This year’s NOFA focuses more than ever on performance. Specifically, it is geared towards a community’s coordinated system for moving people quickly into housing. System performance is achieved through program outcomes, and demonstrated with data.

Even with the greater focus on outcomes, HUD still gives points for planning. These points prioritize populations based on need, and the ability of best practices to create an impact. They prioritize families, youth, people experiencing chronic homelessness, and veterans.

Finally, work to end homelessness requires buy-in from the entire community.

Read the full article about Continuum of Care funding by Steve Berg at National Alliance to End Homelessness.