The City of Trenton is the lead agency that serves as the UFA Collaborative Applicant that apply for, receive, and distribute funding for all projects in a CoC. The UFA is the sole grant recipient for the CoC; HUD signs a grant agreement with the UFA and the UFA signs separate grant agreements with each subrecipient carrying out the CoC-funded projects.
The Collaborative applicant must prepare and submit a collaborative application (known as the NOFA) to the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) for Federal CoC Program funding to support the operation of homeless assistance projects comprised of Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH), Rapid Re-Housing (RRH), Transitional Housing (TH), and Joint Transitional Housing to Rapid Re-Housing (TH-RRH) programs, Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) operation, and CoC planning activities.