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Continuum of Care update: Code Purple sites expanded, HUD funding shifts pose service risk
Summary
COC staff told commissioners the county's Code Purple/winter-shelter plan has $303,000 in funding with county and city matches, new nightly winter-shelter sites are in operation, and HUD's new CoC notice will cap permanent-housing renewals and add program design requirements that may affect roughly 102 households currently in permanent supportive housing.
County Continuum of Care staff briefed commissioners on winter shelter operations and sweeping federal changes to CoC funding priorities that could reduce funding available for permanent supportive housing in the Buncombe CoC.
COC staff (a county employee serving on the Just Home advisory committee) said the Code Purple program this year had $303,000 in available funding and that Buncombe County and the City of Asheville each contributed $50,000. Staff described multiple Code Purple sites: ABCCM's Transformation Village (35 beds for women and women with children), the…
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