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Section 8/Housing Choice Voucher
Some Housing Link participants have access to a Housing Choice Voucher (commonly known as a Section 8 voucher). Section 8 is a program that provides steady payment assistance for individuals and families in the private rental market. Program participants pay a monthly adjusted amount for rent and the balance is subsidized to the landlord by the Bucks County Housing Authority. As a landlord, there are significant benefits to participating in the Section 8 program. Learn more about the process of becoming a Section 8 landlord here.
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HUD 2025 Notification of Funding Opportunity
The U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) has withdrawn the FY2025 CoC NOFO to makes revisions as of 12/8/2025. HUD anticipates reissuing a modified FY2025 NOFO. Due to this, Bucks County will be pausing its local CoC competition process until the new NOFO, or further information by HUD, is released. This means that new and renewal project applications are no longer due 12/12/2025 and will be due at a future date as determined by the reissued NOFO. Application materials, timelines, ranking and scoring criteria, and reallocation process may be modified and reposted based on changes by HUD in the reissued NOFO. The CoC will be notified as further information becomes available on the FY2025 CoC Competition.
Posted 11/17/2025
HUD has released the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the FY2025 CoC Program Competition. Please review the CoC Competition Overview document that highlights information relevant to project eligibility and local CoC submission deadlines. PA-511 Bristol/Bensalem/Bucks County CoC will be following the below internal schedule. The website will be updated with additional information as it becomes available related to this year’s competition.
PA-511 CoC Local Competition Deadlines for CoC Program Funding
11/17/2025 :Bucks County’s CoC NOFO Local Program Competition Deadlines are distributed via the CoC email distribution list and posted publicly to the CoC Housing Link website.
11/21/2025: Request for New Applications, Reallocation Process, and detailed project scoring criteria for new and renewal project applications distributed via email and posted publicly to the CoC Housing Link website. Scoring criteria is subject to change based on release of CoC NOFO Detailed Instructions. CoC will be notified of any changes to scoring prior to the project applications submission due date.
11/24/2025: Information Session hosted by CoC Collaborative Applicant, Housing & Community Development (HCD), for interested applicants in new NOFO project funding. An optional 2nd session will be held on 12/01/25 as well.
12/3/2025: Project Applicants must email Notice of Intent to Apply (with the subject line, “Notice of Intent to Apply – Organization Name”) to hcd@buckscounty.org.
12/12/2025 by 12PM: Project Applicant must submit completed Project Application and emailed to HCDApplications@buckscounty.org by 12PM EST on 12/12/25. Projects selected to be included in the Project Priority Listing will then need to complete and submit their application in esnaps by 1/6/26 or once esnaps becomes available.
12/12/2025-12/16/2025: CoC New Project Review Committee reviews projects and scores new project applications and meets to review and finalize scoring.
12/19/2025: The CoC Executive Committee completes review of scoring and ranking and votes on inclusion, exclusion, and ranking of Project Applications for Priority Listing.
12/29/2025: CoC Collaborative Applicant, Housing & Community Development, notifies Project Applicants via email on inclusion or rejection in Bucks County CoC’s Consolidated Application Priority Listing.
1/12/2026: Bucks County CoC Consolidated Application, inclusive of all Project Applications and Priority Listing, submitted to HUD via e-snaps.
Transparency: The CoC Consolidated Application, including all CoC Project Applications and CoC Priority Listing will be made available on the Housing Link website at least 2 days before the application deadline and will notify community members and key stakeholders that the CoC Consolidated Application is available.
HUD 2025 Notification of Funding Opportunity – Information Session
Last Updated on December 9, 2025 by bchousinglink