The City of New Bedford’s Office of Housing & Community Development has released the 2020 StreetSheet! Go to the HSPN Resource Page to access a copy of the sheet in English, Portuguese and Spanish.  Hard copies of the StreetSheets are also available upon request by contacting Jennifer.Clarke@newbedford-ma.gov.  (Copies will be available for distribution once City of[ Continue reading. ]

HUD awards $1.6 million in homeless assistance funding to New Bedford Article originally published in the Standard Times February 11.2020 NEW BEDFORD – The group tasked with combating homelessness in the area has been awarded a grant from the federal Department of Housing & Urban Development under its Continuum of Care program. The Homeless Service[ Continue reading. ]

The HSPN has completed a review of its actions over the past year focusing on the work it undertook throughout 2019.  A copy of the powerpoint is available here: HSPN ANNUAL SUMMARY.2019

You can now access a copy of New Bedford’s 2019 CoC Consolidated Application! The FINAL COC APPLICATION.2019 along with the APPLICATION ATTACHMENTS are available through these links.  You can also access a copy of the PROJECT PRIORITY LISTING here as well! The CoC Application was reviewed and approved in a unanimous vote by the HSPN Executive Committee[ Continue reading. ]

At its August 15, 2019 membership meeting, the New Bedford Homeless Service Providers Network (HSPN) voted to update its Policies and Procedures document (available here:HMIS POLICIES PROCEDURES.2019 FINAL) as well as its Governance document (available here: HMIS GOVERNANCE.2019 FINAL) that guides the HSPN’s use of data.  These documents describe the way in which the organization’s[ Continue reading. ]