Author: Erin Riley

July 2, 2018

The FY 2018 Competition has begun! HUD released the NOFA on June 20th, 2018. As of June 28, 2018 the CoC Application, CoC Priority Listing and individual project application materials are available in eSNAPS.

The CoC registered for the 2018 HUD CoC competition by May 15th, 2018 which will allow us to access the Exhibit 1 when it’s issued.  The Grant Inventory was completed earlier in the year, returned to HUD, and finalized on June 13, 2018. Our annual renewal demand is $1,884,846.

Listed below are the documents  and instructions for the HUD 2018 Competition Application as well as the tentative timeline. Any changes will be posted to this page.

Any new applicants wishing to apply for funding, please refer to the HUD NOFA below for applicant eligibility and project types allowed for this competition. Please contact Joanie Covert at jcovert@unitedwaysaginaw.org if you have any questions.

Competition Timelines, Scoring, Rating and Ranking, and Procedures available below:

HUD 2018 Competition Timeline

Process Step	Due Date
Intent to Apply	Monday, July 9, 2018 by 4:00 p.m.
Project Application from eSNAPS	Monday, August 13, 2018 by 4:00 p.m.
Rating/Ranking of Grants –IGRT	Week of August 20 or 27
Notify Applicants of IGRT Results	September 1, 2018
Applicant Appeal	September 3, 2018
Project Application FINAL Upload into eSnaps	August 18, 2018
Saginaw City Council Approval	August 27, 2018 (Info to City by August 16)
Exhibit 1 and Priority Listings Due in eSnaps	Tuesday, September 18, 2018

HUD 2018 Competition Application Documents

Intent to Apply

Application Instructions

FY 2018 CoC Program Competition NOFA

FY 2018 MI-510 CoC GIW

Relevant Policies

Grant Applications and Scoring Criteria

Grant Criteria and Ranking Process

Grant renewal Applicant Review

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September 14, 2018

Priority Listing, Continuum of Care Program Application, and Individual Project Applications:

Priority Listing

2018 Priority Listing

Continuum of Care Application

2018 CoC Application

Individual Project Applications

Chronic Homeless Assistance

DV RRH

DV TSH Combo

DVRRHTSH

DVTSH#1

DVTSH#2

HMIS

Mustard Seed Family Plus II – Part 1

Mustard Seed Family Plus II – Samaritan Bonus

Mustard Seed Family Plus

Mustard Seed Plus II

Mustard Seed Plus III

Mustard Seed Plus IV

Mustard Seed Plus V

Mustard Seed Plus

Project Dwelling Place Consolidated

Rapid Rehousing for Homeless Youth Expansion 2

Rapid Re-Housing for Homeless Youth Expansion

Rapid Re-Housing SCYPC

RCO Family First

RCO Rapid Re-Housing

Safe Haven

Shelter Plus Care for Victims of Domestic Violence

Teen Parent Services TLP.St. Ritas

Transitional Housing RCO

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Thursday, January 18, 2018

 

Contact: Mitchell Rivard, 989-450-2534, Mitchell.Rivard@mail.house.gov

 

Congressman Dan Kildee Secures Federal Grants to Help Combat Homelessness, Help Domestic Abuse Victims

 Kildee Successfully Fights for Nearly $2 Million in Federal Housing Grants for Saginaw at Risk Because of Bureaucratic Red Tape

WASHINGTON—Congressman Dan Kildee (MI-05) has successfully worked to get the Saginaw community $1,884,846 in federal grants through the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to help the community reduce homelessness and protect victims of domestic abuse. The federal grants were at risk of being lost due to needless bureaucratic red tape.

In recent years, the Saginaw Housing Commission received federal grants from HUD to help reduce homelessness, support victims of domestic abuse and care for the mentally ill. For the last three years, the Housing Commission has requested that HUD award these grants directly to local organizations using the federal dollars, like Safe Haven and Domestic Violence Permanent Support Housing. However, due to bureaucratic red tape, the transfer process to switch the beneficiaries had not been completed, putting the federal grants in jeopardy, because the grant application deadline was soon approaching.

Local stakeholders, including the United Way of Saginaw County, reached out to Congressman Kildee to see if his congressional office could help complete the transfer before the next grant deadline. Working with community stakeholders and HUD, Congressman Kildee was able to successfully resolve the issue, protecting full funding for the grants and actually helping the community receive increased funding over prior years.

“Losing these grants would have been devastating to Saginaw County and the Homeless Consortium. The grants provide shelter and resources to our hardest to serve communities, including the chronically homeless, mentally ill, severely disabled and victims of domestic violence. I am thankful to Congressman Kildee and his staff for their work getting this transfer completed,” said Joanie Covert of United Way of Saginaw County.

“These grants are critical to the Saginaw community. We are grateful Congressman Kildee’s office was able to step in to get them completed. The grants not only sustain the housing programs that we’re doing, but help bring in additional dollars that go to helping those in Saginaw on the edge of poverty,” said Dan Streeter with the Saginaw County Consortium of Homeless Assistance Providers.

“I am pleased that my office was able to step in and protect these federal grants to reduce homelessness and provide support for victims of domestic abuse in Saginaw,” Congressman Kildee said. “My office is always available to assist mid-Michigan residents if they have a problem with a federal agency or feel that they have been treated unfairly.”

SC-CHAP will be conducting a its annual Winter Point in Time count on Wednesday, January 24th from 11 am to 2 pm and 7 pm to 10 pm in Saginaw County.  Volunteers are needed for the unsheltered count.  Contact the CoC Coordinator at jcovert@unitedwaysaginaw.org or 989-776-0570 for more information.

Every year the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires communities receiving federal funds from the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants program to conduct sheltered counts of people living in emergency shelter or transitional housing. Every other year, HUD requires communities to conduct unsheltered counts of people living in a place unfit for human habitation (such as in an abandoned building or in a park).  The Saginaw CoC conducts both counts annually.

During these point-in-time counts, communities are required to identify whether a person is an individual, a member of a family unit, an unaccompanied youth under the age of 18 or a veterans. In addition, communities must identify if a person is chronically homeless, indicating long-time or repeated homelessness and the presence of a disability.

HUD requires that these counts occur during the last week of January. Point-in-time counts are important because they establish the dimensions of the problem of homelessness and help policymakers and program administrators track progress toward the goal of ending homelessness. Collecting data on homelessness and tracking progress can inform public opinion, increase public awareness, and attract resources that will lead to the eradication of the problem.

HUD uses information from the local point-in-time counts, among other data sources, in the congressionally-mandated Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress (AHAR). This report is meant to inform Congress about the number of people experiencing homelessness in the U.S. and the effectiveness of HUD’s programs and policies in decreasing those numbers.

On the local level, point-in-time counts help communities plan services and programs to appropriately address local needs, measure progress in decreasing homelessness, and identify strengths and gaps in a community’s current homelessness assistance system.