The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a $4.04 billion plan for its 2026 Continuum of Care (CoC) grant program on Monday, after litigation had halted its 2025 efforts to reform the nation's largest resource for homelessness assistance funding.
The new Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) continues the agency’s attempts to change the structure of the grants from permanent supportive housing to transitional housing. HUD Secretary Scott Turner touted the plan in a press release Monday.
“The ‘housing first’ experiment failed Americans by warehousing the vulnerable without results,” he stated. “This ideology promised to end homelessness. Instead, billions of taxpayer dollars were spent while homelessness increased to rec...