Westchester County CoC FY2021 NY-604 Application Documents

Click on the images below to download the FY2021 CoC Application and the FY2021 CoC Priority Listing. These are the documents that are submitted to HUD to apply for new and renewal Continuum of Care project funding.

New Bonus Project - Request For Information (RFI)

The Request For Information (RFI) offered by the Westchester Continuum of Care to solicit proposals from eligible partner agencies requesting to be included as sub-recipient providers in the application to HUD for Continuum of Care Bonus (CoCB) and Domestic Violence Bonus (DVB) projects, which might be awarded through the FY2021 Continuum of Care (CoC) Program competition.

• Only Continuums of Care which score high enough will receive CoC Bonus and/or DV Bonus funding.

• CoC’s are allowed to submit more than one CoC Bonus and/or DV Bonus application to HUD, so the Westchester CoC may choose one or two CoC Bonus partners and one or more DV Bonus partners to submit an application.

  • Responses to the CoC Bonus RFI must request either 50% or 100% of the maximum available from HUD

  • Responses to the DV Bonus RFI can request any amount from $50,000 to $1,271,640

• The DV Bonus is offered by HUD to provide services and housing to homeless households fleeing domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, stalking, and/or human trafficking. Individuals and families who have been made homeless or are at eminent risk of homelessness by attempting to flee are eligible for HUD funded housing as stated in the Category 4 Definition of Homelessness in the HEARTH ACT.

• The maximum funding request total for applications from Westchester CoC for the CoC Bonus is $1,045,034.

• The maximum funding request total for applications from Westchester CoC for the DV Bonus is $1,271,640.

• Responses to this CoC Bonus RFI are due September 21 at 1pm.

There will be a conference to discuss the RFI this Friday September 3 at 1:30pm information to join the conference online or by phone can be found here: https://www.wcochomeless.org/news/2021/8/31/wcoc-bonus-project-rfi-conference-friday-september-3-2021

Please use the links below to download the RFI and required forms:

• WCoC FY21 Bonus (WCoCB) Project RFI

  • WCoCB FY21 Attachment 1 Form

  • WCoCB FY21 Budget Form

  • WCoCB FY21 Budget Example Form

• WCoC FY21 Domestic Violence Bonus (WCoCDVB) Project RFI

  • WCoCDVB FY21 Attachment 1 Form

  • WCoCDVB FY21 Budget Form

  • WCoCDVB FY21 Budget Example Form

To learn more about how the HEARTH Act defines “fleeing” and the Category 4 Definition of Homelessness please visit the following resources:

National Network to End Domestic Violence. (2020, August). Fleeing DV. Nnedv.Org. https://nnedv.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Library_Policy_HEARTH_Creating_Access_for_Survivors.pdf

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. (2009). S. 896 HEARTH Act of 2009 - HUD Exchange. HUDExchange.Info. https://www.hudexchange.info/resource/1717/s-896-hearth-act/

HUD Fiscal Year 2021 Notice of Funding Availability

HUD Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for FY2021

*Agencies with questions and concerns please contact Craig Wong at cqw1@westchestergov.com*

Westchester County CoC (NY-604) Project Ranking

HUD has given local CoC's the opportunity to locally review and rank CoC Project Applications. During a Board meeting held on 03/17/21, the Westchester CoC Board approved a Ranking and Review Process with objective performance measure criteria by which to rank renewal projects.