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City of Boise's Homeless Services Grant FY25

Our Path Home is excited to announce that applications for the City of Boise's Homeless Services Grants are officially open! The application or the Homeless Services Grant Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) will be open through Thursday, August 16, 2024.

The City of Boise is committed to ending homelessness in Ada County and serves as the lead agency for Our Path Home, the public-private partnership working to make homelessness in Ada County an increasingly rare, brief, and singular experience. Because of this commitment, the City continues to bolster the work of Our Path Home non-profit partner agencies by investing in evidence-based best practices and by exploring new opportunities to better serve our community.

The City of Boise funds grants for homelessness services each year from the Neighbors in Need (NIN) Fund and can obligate additional monies for a homelessness services purpose when funding is available. The funds available during any given year are combined into a single grant process, the Homelessness Services Grant, that funds projects beginning on October 1st and ending on September 30th of the following year.

FY25 Funding

Total funding available is $457,000.

FY25 Priorities and Eligibility

The City, in support of Our Path Home, is soliciting project applications for FY25 for these funds. The call for applications prioritizes the following intended beneficiaries:

  • Residents experiencing literal homelessness, especially adult-only households, including those that have recently exited homelessness being supported to sustain their housing
  • Residents at risk or imminent risk of experiencing homelessness, especially those exiting public funded intuitions, systems of care, and those in legal eviction processes, and residents that have prior experience of homelessness documented with Our Path Home within the last 24 months

Therefore, programs or projects that are prioritized generally should include the following:

  • Supportive housing services, including direct financial/rental assistance and case management, to residents actively exiting or with recent prior experiencing of homelessness
  • Targeted homelessness prevention through direct financial/rental assistance to residents at risk or imminent risk of experiencing homelessness

Our Path Home also wants to explicitly invite and encourage applications from organizations that advocate for, primarily serve, and/or are led by residents from under-recognized communities that are overrepresented among residents experiencing homelessness:

  • Black, Asian, Latinx, Pacific Islanders, and indigenous populations
  • People who identify as LGBTQIA+
  • People living with disabilities
  • People who have been arrested or incarcerated
  • Veterans
  • Youth
  • Seniors
  • Eligible activities must:
  • Serve residents of the City of Boise

Serve households with an income of 80% or below Area Median Income (AMI), as defined by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development; although applicants are encouraged to serve households with an income of 60% or below AMI (see City of Boise income guidelines here)

Application Requirements

Grantees must comply with all applicable fair housing and civil rights requirements in 24 CFR 5.105(a). In addition, grantees must make rental assistance and services available to all on a nondiscriminatory basis and ensure that all City of Boise residents have equal access to information about the program and services available and equal access to the financial assistance and services provided.

Grantees are required to affirmatively further fair housing for the protected classes: race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability and familial status. Examples of affirmatively furthering fair housing include:

  • Marketing the program to all eligible persons, including persons with disabilities and persons with limited English proficiency
  • Making buildings and communications that facilitate applications and service delivery accessible to persons with disabilities
  • Providing fair housing counseling services or referrals to fair housing agencies
  • Informing program participants of how to file a housing discrimination complaint
  • Recruiting landlords in areas that expand housing choice

Application Process and Timeline

The Our Path Home Executive Committee (OPH EC) oversees the grant making processes and makes a recommendation to the Mayor and City Council regarding the expenditure of funds. For the FY25 Homelessness Services Grant, the OPH EC designated the process work to a grant review team composed of different community stakeholders connected to ending homelessness and staffed by Our Path Home team members. The grant review team will set up the process, review the applications and provide a recommendation to the OPH EC. The OPH EC will review and determine a final funding recommendation that will be sent to the Boise City Council for final review and approval.

  • Wednesday, July 17, 2024 – Application period opens
  • Friday, August 16, 2024 – Application period closes at 5:00 PM MT
  • Monday, September 2, 2024 – FUND Committee sends scoring and recommendation to OPH EC
  • Monday, September 9, 2024 – Our Path Home Executive Committee determines funding recommendations for City Council
  • Tuesday, September 24, 2023 – City Council receives funding recommendation for review and approval
  • Tuesday, October 1, 2024 – Grant agreement(s) effective and grantees can begin requesting reimbursement for eligible activities

If you have questions, please email info@ourpathhome.org.

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