COC COMPETITION MA-505 COC RFP NOW AVAILABLE! On Friday, August 5, 2022, the City of New Bedford’s Continuum of Care (CoC), acting through the Office of Housing & Community Development, issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) that includes both instructions and new/renewal application forms for 2022 funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban[ Continue reading. ]

The 2022 Continuum of Care (CoC) funding competition convened by the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) opened in August of 2022 and will conclude no later than HUD’s Submission deadline of September 30, 2022.  This year all continuums are planning timelines that are highly accelerated as is New Bedford’s own CoC schedule.[ Continue reading. ]

(Approved by the HSPN membership on June 16.2022.) The City of New Bedford’s HSPN membership adopted its CoC Community Priorities at its regular meeting of June 16, 2022.  Those priorities are available here: 2022 COC COMMUNITY PRIORITIES.

The New Bedford Continuum of Care lost one of its own family Wednesday evening, July 6, 2022.  Peter Muise, former President of First Citizen’s Federal Credit Union and longtime member of the HSPN, passed away. Peter’s passion,advocacy and tenacity in working on behalf of those in greatest need will always be remembered and missed.  His[ Continue reading. ]

(Approved by the HSPN membership on June 16.2022) The City of New Bedford’s HSPN membership adopted its CoC Community Priorities at its regular meeting of June 16.2022.  Those priorities are available here: 2022 COC COMMUNITY PRIORITIES.

The City of New Bedford has completed its annual “Point In Time” (PIT) count creating a census of those individuals and families experiencing homelessness within the city, both sheltered (living in emergency or transitional housing) and unsheltered (on the streets/in places not meant for human habitation). Concurrent with that has been the development of the[ Continue reading. ]

April is Fair Housing Month so the HSPN asked Rebecca Eissenova, Legal Director with Catholic Social Services in Fall River, to share her presentation on Immigration, particularly as it intersects with the work homeless service providers undertake.  The resulting presentation, a copy of which is provided here, offers a great overview into this complicated subject.[ Continue reading. ]

Although typically a complete Point In Time (PIT) Count and Housing Inventory Chart (HIC) is presented on this website, in advance of that publication this year, an early snapshot of the unsheltered statistics collected in February 2022 has been published in a brief PowerPoint.  Check out the early numbers from the street count here: UNSHELTERED[ Continue reading. ]