Continuum of Care (CoC) Funding Update

The Knoxville-Knox County Continuum of Care (TN-502) Board of Directors has approved a request to HUD to renew Fiscal Year 2024 CoC Program grants for Fiscal Year 2025.

HUD has not yet released a new Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). The community anticipates the next CoC competition (FY 2026) to be announced in summer 2026.

Please check this page periodically for updates as additional information becomes available.

The Continuum of Care (CoC) program is a federally-funded initiative by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) designed to:

• promote a community-wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness;
• provide funding for efforts by nonprofit providers, States, Indian Tribes or Tribally Designated Housing Entities, and local governments to quicky rehouse individuals and families experiencing homelessness, persons experiencing trauma or a lack of safety related to fleeing or attempting to flee domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, and youth experiencing homelessness while minimizing the trauma and dislocation caused by homelessness;
• promote access to, and effective utilization of, mainstream programs and programs funded with State or local resources; and
• optimize self-sufficiency among individuals and families experiencing homelessness.

Our local CoC is known as TN-502, and includes Knoxville and Knox County.