FFY2025 CONTINUUM OF CARE (CoC) PROGRAM COMPETITION
UPDATED: November 21, 2025
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has announced the NOFO (Notice of Funding Opportunity) for FY2025 funds for the Continuum of Care Homeless Assistance Program (CoC Application). The Continuum of Care NOFO is an combined paper and online application which will be coordinated by Arundel Community Development Services (ACDS) on behalf of the Anne Arundel and Annapolis Coalition to End Homelessness. Please view our application process timeline below.
A draft version of the application is available here to allow applicants to prepare their responses in advance of its anticipated release in the Neighborly portal on Monday evening.
*If you require a special accommodation (e.g. interpreter for deaf and hard of hearing or an interpreter for persons with limited English proficiency to participate in CoC meetings, application translation) to complete or participate in the FY2025 Application process, please contact Elisha Harig-Blaine at ACDS, eharig-blaine@acdsinc.org or 410-222-3236.
**To assist renewal CoC applicants, a crosswalk between this year’s application questions and last year’s application questions is located with the links at the bottom of this page.
FY2025 HUD CoC FUNDING AMOUNTS
HUD will continue to require CoC projects to be ranked in two (2) tiers. The amount of funds for which the County may apply is calculated based the CoC’s Annual Renewal Demand (ARD), which is calculated according to HUD. Projects ranked in Tier 1 (30% ARD) will be conditionally selected provided the project applications pass both eligibility and quality threshold review. Tier 2 is the difference between Tier 1 and the CoC’s total funding request and will be competitive. This does not include funds made available for CoC Planning.
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- The Anne Arundel County CoC ARD is $3,282,924.
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- The Anne Arundel County Tier I is $984,877
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- The Anne Arundel County CoC can apply for a Bonus Project award up to $656,585
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- The Anne Arundel County CoC can apply for a Domestic Violence (DV) Bonus Project award up to $312,710.
HUD CoC COMPETITION TIMELINE
- FFY2025 CoC Program Competition Open: Thursday, November 13, 2025
- FFY2025 CoC Program Competition Submission Deadline: Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Links:
Link to FY2025 CoC NOFO Application Training Recording
FY2025 CoC LOCAL COMPETITION KEY DATES
- Friday, November 21, 2025 – FY2025 Project Application questions anticipated to be available for Review – A link to the application will be posted here as soon as it is available.
- Monday, November 24, 2025 , 2:30 p.m. – FY2025 CoC NOFO Application Information and Planning Meeting – Session 1 (Virtual via Microsoft Teams)
- Updated: Monday, November 24– Neighborly Application Portal Opens
Please contact Elisha Harig-Blaine, eharig-blaine@acdsinc.org, if you require a special accommodation for participation in this virtual session (e.g. interpreter for deaf and hard of hearing or an interpreter for persons with limited English proficiency to participate in CoC meetings, application translation)
A RECORDING the Neighborly Portal User Walkthrough can be found here. A walkthrough document can be found at the bottom of this page.
- Friday, December 12, 2025, 12:00 noon – New and Renewal Applications due via Neighborly Portal
Please submit all applicant materials, including match letters. Please reach out to Elisha Harig-Blaine at eharig-blaine@acdsinc.org, with any questions or concerns related to the application or FY2025 NOFO.
- Ranking and Review Committee Meeting – Week of December 15, 2025
- December 22, 2025 – Notification of Ranking and Review Committee Results for FFY2025 CoC Project Applicants
FY2025 CoC REALLOCATION POLICY
- UPDATED: November 20, 2025
- It is anticipated that, due to changes in the FY2025 CoC Program Competition, that up to 70% of all Permanent Housing (both PSH and Rapid Re-Housing Projects) will be required to be reallocated to create new projects to meet HUD’s new priorities. CoC grantee’s are encouraged to create new projects that will meet these new priorities as outlined in FY2025 CoC Completion Fact Sheet, available here.
- ACDS is scheduling meetings with renewal projects to discuss impacts of these changes. Please reach out to Beth Brush, Chief Planning Officer, ebrush@acdsinc.org with questions.
- Any CoC grantee interested in voluntarily reallocating funding to better reach the goal of ending homelessness is encouraged to create a new project that will better achieve that goal – please reach out to ACDS staff if you are considering creating a new CoC project. Low performing projects may have funding reallocated through the process of review and ranking procedures per the MD-503 Anne Arundel County CoC Reallocation Policy, available here.
CONTACT
For answers to any questions related to the CoC NOFO, Program Competition, Local Competition, Program, or Application, please contact:
Elisha Harig-Blaine, Assistant Planning Director | (410) 222-3236 | eharig-blaine@acdsinc.org
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