Continuum of Care Competition
The Continuum of Care (CoC) Program is designed to promote community-wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness. The CoC Competition is an annual funding opportunity announced via a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) released by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
The CoC Competition NOFO funds the renewal of existing CoC grants, including Domestic Violence (DV) Renewal projects, and provides funding for new projects created with DV Bonus, CoC Bonus, and reallocation of existing CoC/DV renewal projects. Once a CoC Competition NOFO is released, CoCs generally have a limited timeframe to announce and complete FY25 CoC Local Competition that culminates in a Collaborative Application, which is submitted by a Collaborative Applicant (CA) on behalf of the CoC’s region.
Our Path Home (ID-500), the CoC that oversees the homelessness system partnership working in Ada County, designated the City of Boise as their CA. In this role, the city manages the CoC Competition and submits all CoC Application materials to HUD including the CoC Application, CoC Priority Listing, and all ranked Project Applications as well as a non-ranked CoC Planning Grant.
Questions and requests for more information about the FY25 NOFO can be sent to info@ourpathhome.org.
2025 CoC Competition Withdrawn
On December 8, 2025 the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) withdrew the FY 2025 Continuum of Care (CoC) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). The following update is posted to the HUD CoC Competition webpage, available here:
“The Department has withdrawn a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) with respect to the Continuum of Care (CoC) grant program. This withdrawal will allow the Department to make appropriate revisions to the NOFO, and the Department intends to do so. In the previous FY 24-25 NOFO, the Department reserved the right to make changes to the NOFO instead of processing renewals for a variety of reasons, icluding to accommodate a new CoC or Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) priority or new funding source. The Department still intends to exercise this discretion and make changes to the previously issued CoC NOFO to account for new priorities. HUD anticipates reissuing a modified NOFO well in advance of the deadline for obligation of available Fiscal Year 2025 funds.”
Further, HUD submitted a response to the court on December 15, 2025 which can be read here that confirmed that “the 2025 NOFO has no present effect”.
Based on the withdrawal and HUD’s submissions to the court, Our Path Home has decided to formally cancel the Local Competition and all associated activities until further guidance is issued. It is not known at this time what those revisions or timeline will be. We encourage applicants be prepared to resume activity if HUD moves forward to re-release a revised NOFO. We will communicate further once we have more information.
Any documents on this page are available in an accessible format by request to info@ourpathhome.org.