New HUD Policy Could Take Northern Michigan's Homelessness Response System 'Back Decades'
By Craig Manning | Dec. 3, 2025
The Northwest Michigan Coalition to End Homelessness could lose more than two-thirds of its federal funding, depending on what happens with a controversial new policy from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). According to Coalition director Ashley Halladay-Schmandt, the funding collapse would be “catastrophic” for the homelessness response system in northern Michigan, dismantling key supports and setting the fight to end homelessness back decades.
As Halladay-Schmandt explains it, the Coalition is the “collaborative body” for northwest Lower Michigan’s homelessness “continuum of care” (COC). COCs get much of their funding from HUD through periodic notices of funding opportunity (NOFO). The NOFO system is technically competitive, in that …
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