2025 timeline

Westchester County Continuum of Care

FY2025 CoC Application timeline

FY2025 CoC Application timeline

July 16                          Ranking and Review policy approved by CoC Board

November 13              CoC NOFO released by HUD

November 19              CoC Board meeting sets Local Competition due dates, eligible project types, and eligible populations, amends Ranking and Review policy to conform to HUD NOFO requirements

November 20              Local Competition RFI for renewals and new projects released

November 26              Notification of Renewal forms due

December 4               Draft of renewal scoring released

December 8               Deadline for submitting scoring results feedback to CoC

December 8               New Project proposals due

December 9    New Project scoring due from CoC Board members and results announced

December 9               Revised renewal ranking scoring released

December 10              CoC Renewal projects Accepted or Rejected or Reduced based on Ranking results by CoC Board; All projects New and Renewal final rankings

December 11             Notices sent to Tier 2 and Reallocated projects and Rejected new projects

December 15             Renewal Project Applications due in e-snaps

                                     New Project Applications due in e-snaps

December 30  CoC notices outside e-snaps to all applicants

January 6  All Project Applications reviewed, amended, approved within e-snaps

January 11  All Consolidated Application materials posted to CoC website

January 14 HUD CoC Application submission deadline


2025 Rank and Review Process

Westchester County CoC (NY-604) Project Rank & Review Process approved by WCoC Board July 16, 2025; Amended November 19, 2025

HUD has given local CoC's the opportunity to locally review, assess, score, then and rank renewal CoC projects for performance and compliance with the CoC Interim Rule at 24 CFR 578.

During a Board meeting held on July 16, 2025, the Westchester CoC Board approved a Ranking and Review Process with objective performance measure criteria by which to review, score, and rank renewal projects. This document was amended by the CoC Board on November 19, 2025 to conform to requirements in the FY2025 NOFO released by HUD on November 13, 2025

Click on image to download 2025 Rank and Review Process document

Click the image to download the 2024 Rank and Review Process document


FY2025 CoC NOFO


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The Westchester County CoC is soliciting Requests for Information (RFIs) from eligible partner agencies for the FY2025 CoC Program Competition

The Westchester County CoC is soliciting Requests For Information (RFIs) from eligible partner agencies to be included as subrecipient providers in the application to HUD for

·         Transitional Housing (TH) projects, which may be awarded by HUD through the FY2025 Continuum of Care (CoC) Program competition. Proposals due December 8.

·         Supportive Services Only (SSO)) projects, which may be awarded by HUD through the FY2025 Continuum of Care (CoC) Program competition. Proposals due December 8.

A portion of both TH and SSO project funding will be used for proposals for projects dedicated to serve Survivors of Domestic Violence (DV).

·         CoC Renewal Projects which will be reviewed and ranked for possible inclusion in the FY2025 CoC Program competition for renewal funding. Renewal Notifications due November 26 from current FY2024 CoC grant recipients only.

Use the forms available ABOVE to apply for each funding opportunity by the deadlines.

Before you apply, read the instructions carefully in both the local RFI documents and the FY2025 HUD Continuum of Care NOFO. 

Any questions about this RFI should be e-mailed to Yoav Spiegel at yqs2@westchestercountyny.gov no later than 12 pm on Wednesday December 3, 2025.

An Optional 2025 RFI Proposers conference will be held at 1:00 pm on Tuesday November 25th.

This meeting will discuss all aspects of this RFI, especially considerations for designing projects with partners in order to access the HUD bonus category points.

Join the meeting on WebEx as follows:

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Local Westchester CoC FY2025 Competition Project Application Deadlines

The FY2025 NOFO for the Continuum of Care Program Competition was released on 11/13/25. Per NOFO section V.A.1. the Westchester CoC must design, operate, and follow a collaborative process for the development of the application in response to the NOFO. As part of this process, we must establish internal competition deadlines as outlined below:

(1) Renewal Notices. In order to be eligible for FY2025 CoC Renewal review, ranking, and funding this form must be submitted for each CoC project renewing in 2026 by emailed by 2 PM on Wednesday, November 26, 2025

 (2) Project Applicants. All project applications are required to be submitted to the Westchester CoC through e-snaps no later than 7:59:59 p.m on December 15, 2025 (no later than 30 days before the application deadline to HUD).

 (3) CoC Notification to Project Applicants. The Westchester CoC will notify, in writing outside of e-snaps, all project applicants who submitted their project applications to the CoC whether their project application(s) will be accepted and ranked on the CoC Priority Listing, rejected, or reduced by the CoC no later than 7:59:59 p.m on December 30, 2025 (no later than 15 days before the application deadline to HUD).

Where a project application is being rejected or reduced, the Westchester CoC will notify the project applicant, in writing outside of e-snaps, with an explanation for the decision to reject or reduce the project application.


Initial CoC renewal rankings

Initial CoC renewal project rankings based on the ranking process as amended by the CoC Board on November 19, 2025 may be downloaded by clicking on the image below.

Comments or concerns with this CoC renewal ranking may be submitted by 2pm on Monday December 8, 2025 to Yoav Spiegel at yqs2@westchestercountyny.gov

Draft CoC renewal rankings for 2025

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Westchester CoC Boad ranks renewal CoC projects

On August 21, 2024 the Westchester CoC Board approved the results of the CoC renewal project ranking process. The ranking results are available for download by clicking on the image below. 15 out of 16 renewal projects were Accepted for renewal; the lowest ranked PSH project was Rejected and funding for FY2024 was reallocated into an Expansion of the high performing Shallow Rent PSH project.

4 new PSH projects have been approved and ranked by the CoC Board (in addition to the CoC Planning project which is not ranked):

Homestead Expansion (CoC Bonus), Shallow Rent Expansion (Reallocation), Hombase (CoC Bonus), and DCMHCaresPlus (CoC Bonus).

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CoC Bonus Scoring results

The Westchester CoC received two responses to the local RFI released August 8 and due September 4 for FY2024 CoC Bonus funding.

Westchester CoC Board Scoring results for the CoC Bonus RFI (out of possible 20):

FSSY                                       17.300

HDSW                                    17.225

Note that for the CoC Bonus there is enough potential HUD funding to include both FSSY and HDSW proposals in the FY2024 application.

Per CoC Board instructions both CoC Bonus projects will be ranked in Tier 2, below all 17 renewal projects;

the FSSY project will be ranked #18 and the HDSW project will be ranked #19 (out of 19) total ranked projects.

 Thank you to all CoC Board members who voted during this CoC Bonus scoring process.

CoC Application for public review

Approved Westchester Continuum of Care consolidated FY2024 CoC Application materials available for download and public review

Comments & questions about the FY2024 consolidated application may be emailed to yqs2@westchestercountyny.gov

DOWNLOAD CoC Application FY2024 HERE
DOWNLOAD CoC Priority Listing FY2024 heRE

FY2024 CoC Application Submitted

FY2024 CoC Application submitted by the Westchester County Continuum of Care on October 30, 2024.