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Orange County supervisors debate urging HUD to renew homelessness grants as funding risks imperil hundreds
Summary
Supervisors debated whether the board should send an urgent letter to HUD asking it to renew Continuum of Care grants after HUD withdrew a NOFO; staff said eight grants covering 324 households could lapse by June and that the broader program supports about 1,100 households. The board did not adopt a board-sent letter on the floor and agreed to agendize the matter for Jan. 13, 2026.
The Orange County Board of Supervisors spent much of its Dec. 16 meeting considering whether to ask the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to renew existing Continuum of Care (CoC) grants for 12 months after HUD abruptly removed a NOFO from its website.
Supervisor Sarmiento asked the board to "direct staff to transmit a letter from the board to HUD and the Orange County congressional delegation" to request one-year renewals so local programs would not lose funding; he told the supervisors that the county could lose funding that supports hundreds of households if action were not taken. "We have over 300 households that will be compromised and more than $11,000,000 in funding will expire," he said.
Doug Beck, director of the office of care coordination, told the board the issue is timing and administration of awards rather than an immediate policy dispute. He said HUD had pulled its November NOFO and that, because several local…
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