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Projects and initiatives

Continuum of Care

Partnership to end homelessness

The Continuum of Care supports coordination of the countywide effort to prevent and end homelessness. This effort addresses homelessness at all levels. Continuum of Care committees include elected officials, housing and service providers, advocates, people who’ve experienced homelessness, and cross-sector partners.

Governing boards and committees

Hennepin County is proud to be the collaborative applicant on behalf of the Hennepin Continuum of Care. In this capacity, our responsibilities include:

  • Preparing and submitting an annual collaborative application to HUD
  • Submitting the Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR), Housing Inventory Count (HIC), Point-in-Time (PIT) Count, and System Performance Measurement (SPM) data
  • Convening and providing staff support as needed for CoC boards and committees

The Hennepin CoC boards and committees contribute to the governance structure of the Hennepin CoC. The Executive Committee is the lead decision-making body. Several active and engaged CoC committees, subcommittees, and working groups in Hennepin County contribute to and lead efforts to prevent and end homelessness.

Full description of the CoC governance structure (DOCX, 1MB)

Continuum of Care governance committees

Heading Home Hennepin Executive committee

  • Act as champions for efforts to prevent and end homelessness, as evidenced through public advocacy, funding and external communications.
  • Provide an enduring forum for broad-based, collaborative and strategic leadership on homelessness in Hennepin County 
Previous meetings:

Thursday, September 18 from 10 to 11:30 a.m.

Monday, June 30 from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Previous meeting recordings

Contact

Email David at david.hewitt@hennepin.us.

HUD McKinney Vento CoC funding committee

  • Monitors and evaluates performance of all projects funded by Continuum of Care, per HUD guidance
  • Solicits new project applications (if new funds are available), and recommends the ranking of current projects submitted annually — HUD makes final funding allocations based on a competitive national application score and process, based on how our CoC is moving the gauge on HUD System Performance measures

Meetings

  • First Monday of the month, 1–2:30 p.m.
  • Attend virtually through Microsoft Teams

Contact

Email Laura at laura.derosier@hennepin.us.

Homeless prevention and rapid rehousing advisory committee

This committee helps the county develop and oversee homeless prevention and rapid rehousing services.

Meetings

  • Third Tuesday of the month, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
  • Meetings held virtually

Hennepin coordinated entry leadership committee

  • Informs policy and procedure development and revisions for the family Coordinated Entry System
  • Provides guidance to help ensure consistent application of CES policies and procedures

Meetings

  • First Tuesday of the month, 10 - 12 p.m.
  • Attend virtually through Microsoft Teams 

Contact

Email ces.hennepin@hennepin.us

Lived Experience Advisory Group (LEAG)

  • A committee of community members, that draw from their own lived experiences to be voices for those that otherwise go unheard
  • Work with government officials and grant administers to influence how money is spent and decisions are made
  • Partner with neighbors and community members to educate and advocate for a better future where homelessness no longer exists in our community. 

Hennepin County LEAG is not currently accepting applications for new members. 

Meetings

  • Second Monday of the month, 3:00–4:30 p.m.
  • Meeting held virtually

Contact

Email Eric at eric.richert@hennepin.us

HUD Continuum of Care program information

Grants to reduce homelessness

Hennepin County applies for federal funding on behalf of our partner nonprofits, to help their work to reduce homelessness.

  • Federal money comes from Housing and Urban Development (HUD) McKinney Vento Continuum of Care
  • Money goes for grants to local partners
  • Partners help people find and stay in housing
  • People served are single adults, families and youth who meet HUD’s criteria for homelessness
  • The county and its partners compete nationally to receive the money

2025 Continuum of Care Competition and Youth Homeless Demonstration Program Grants NOFO

As of December 8, 2025, HUD has withdrawn the FY2025 CoC and YHDP NOFO. Hennepin CoC has paused all activities for the NOFO until HUD re-releases the NOFO. We will forward information as it becomes available. To receive updates regarding the HUD CoC NOFO, please subscribe to the following three mailing lists:

2025 HUD CoC NOFO application documents:

  • FY2025 CoC and YHDP Program Grants NOFO (PDF, 1MB)
  • 2025 CoC NOFO Overview and Timeline (DOCX, 1 MB) (updated December 9, 2025)
    • Letter of Intent to Apply (currently closed)
    • Letter of intent for all renewal projects are due on December 1, 2025
    • Project application due date will be established upon re-release of NOFO
  • 2025 CoC ranking process, procedures and appeals (coming soon)
  • 2025 CoC Priority List (coming soon)
  • 2025 CoC Collaborative Application (coming soon)
  • FY2025 CoC New Project pre-applications - (coming soon)

2024 HUD Continuum of Care Program Awards

In fiscal year 2024, our community was awarded $20,493,890 in homeless assistance funding through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Continuum of Care (CoC) program. That award represented a significant increase of more than $2.5 million from the previous year's allocation of $17.9 million.  

For further details and to view the complete list of funded projects, please visit the Continuum of Care Competition Homeless Assistance Award Report (PDF, 1MB).

Grant application documents

For comments or Questions about the Approved Application, E-mail laura.derosier@hennepin.us 

2025 CoC NOFO new project pre-applications

Each year, Hennepin County applies for federal funding on behalf of our partner nonprofits, through the Continuum of Care (CoC) program competition.

The Hennepin/Minneapolis Continuum of Care (MN-500) is seeking new project pre-applications for possible inclusion in the 2025 application to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD).

Hennepin County CoC is now accepting FY2025 CoC & YHDP NOFO

New Project pre-applications for the following project types:

  • Transitional Housing (TH) – (p.55-57)
  • Support Services Only (SSO) – very specific service requirements/expectations (see p.80)
    • Stand alone – (p.57-58)
    • Street Outreach – (p.58)
    • Coordinated Entry – (p.59)

HUD has put the FY2025 NOFO on pause. Hennepin CoC has extended the deadline for new project pre-application by an additional week. The deadline to submit is now December 23, 2025.

The FY2025 NOFO has very different program requirements and expectations for the above new project types, please refer to the FY2025 CoC & YHDP NOFO (PDF, 1MB) for more information on expectations that you will need to be in compliance with. If you are funded, you will hold your contract directly with HUD.

New project pre-application documents:

Questions

Questions can be sent to Laura.Derosier@hennepin.us

Data and research

Current data and trends

Hennepin County single adult homeless shelters dashboard

Annual Point in Time count

Detailed evictions overview

Eviction dashboard

Evictions research

Homeless response system research

Family homelessness research

Related pages

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