NOTICE OF FUNDING AVAILABILITY

PSH PIPELINE APPLICATION

Partners for HOME—in partnership with Atlanta Housing, Invest Atlanta, the City of Atlanta Department of City Planning, Enterprise Community Partners and Corporation for Supportive Housing—is pleased to announce a Notice of Funding Availability for the development of new permanent supportive housing units in the City of Atlanta.

In 2017, the City of Atlanta and the United Way Regional Commission on Homelessness (RCOH), developed the HomeFirst public-private partnership, to invest $50 million to advance the goals of ClearPath, the City of Atlanta’s five-year plan to make homelessness rare, brief and nonrecurring.  One of the goals of ClearPath is to end chronic homelessness by 2019, with the creation of 550 new permanent supportive housing (PSH) units.

HomeFirst was created to build and expand the available inventory of quality permanent supportive housing (PSH) units for vulnerable populations including individuals experiencing chronic homelessness. HomeFirst builds on a partnership between the City of Atlanta, Invest Atlanta (IA) and the United Way Regional Commission on Homelessness. The agency administrating the program is Partners for HOME (PfH).  Atlanta Housing will work with IA, RCOH and PfH to implement HomeFirst.   Other partners include the City of Atlanta Department of City Planning, the Corporation for Supportive Housing and Enterprise Community Partners.

PfH seeks proposals from developers for the expansion and development of permanent supportive housing (PSH) units. PSH combines affordable housing with wraparound services to support tenants, primary and behavioral health, and skills development to advance employment and social connections. Qualified proposals that expand the inventory of PSH units will gain access to HomeFirst capital development funding and service funding for up to three years.   Atlanta Housing (AH) will provide support for the HomeFirst Initiative by providing rental operating subsidies to qualified developments under its HomeFlex (Project Based Rental Assistance) program.

This is an open notice of funding.  Applications will be received on a rolling basis until all funds are expended.  The Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA), application and other important information is available via the links on the right. Please submit all questions to Cathryn Marchman.