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LAHSA warns HUD’s new CoC competition will put large share of Los Angeles permanent-housing renewals at risk
Summary
LAHSA staff told a city committee that HUD’s FY2025 Continuum of Care NOFO, released Nov. 13, vastly narrows the share of projects automatically protected from competition — shifting tens of millions of dollars and placing many permanent-housing renewals at risk of losing federal support.
Nathaniel Bergau, deputy chief program officer at the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, told a Los Angeles municipal committee that a Nov. 13 HUD Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) and related procedural changes will sharply raise the stakes for local homelessness programs. "This year HUD has changed it from 90% being allowed into being put into tier 1 to a cap of 30% of the total annual renewal demand being eligible to be put into tier 1," Bergau said, adding that a separate 30% cap on permanent-housing renewals further limits what LA can request.
Why it matters: Under prior competitions a large majority of renewal projects were effectively protected from national competition; the new rules would force roughly 70% of the city’s renewals into a competitive national pool. Bergau said last year about 87–90% of the…
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