Emergency Solutions Grant

The ESG program is available to Non-Profit Organizations and Units of Local Government to help provide transitional housing, emergency shelter, and rental assistance to help people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. Overview If you are in need of direct assistance, call 211 or contact the Continuum of Care for your County from the link below: Continuums of Care Contacts The Emergency Solutions Grant Program (ESG) was first enacted under Title V of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s appropriation act for the fiscal year 1987, and was fully established by the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act in 1988. The original program name at that time was the Emergency Shelter Grant Program. The Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing (HEARTH) Act of 2009 amended the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act. The HEARTH Act included major revisions to the Emergency Shelter Grant Program, essentially changing it to the Emergency Solutions Grant Program. The program is funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development and administered by the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs. ESG is a program that may provide assistance to all areas of the state. Grant funding is used to upgrade existing homeless facilities and domestic abuse shelters, to help meet the operating costs of such facilities, to provide essential services (such as health and mental health services) to both sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons, to help prevent homelessness, to rapidly re-house homeless persons and to assist in the costs of administering the Homeless Management Information System. Eligible activities for homelessness prevention and rapid re-housing include: rental assistance, utility assistance, moving costs, case management and limited legal assistance. PY2024 ESG Grants End of Performance Period ADECA’s Memo pertaining to Notice of End of Performance Period for Open PY2024 ESG Grants PY2026 ESG Grant Application Workshop and Deadline PY2026 ESG Grant Application Workshop and ESG Grant Application Submission Deadline Memo PY2026 ESG Grant Application Workshop Agenda ADECA’s Memorandum on Reminder of PY2026 ESG Grant Application Submission Due Date ADECA Memo on PY2025 ESG Grant Compliance Workshop PY2025 ESG Grant Program – February 27, 2026 Compliance Workshop Memo from ADECA CED Division PY2025 ESG Grant Compliance Workshop Agenda ADECA Memo on HUD Form 2516 Report Deadline ADECA Memo on HUD Form 2516 Report Deadline of October 3, 2025 Form 2516 Submitting CDBG-DR Drawdown Requests Memorandum on Submitting Drawdown Requests for Funds to be Paid by the Close of Fiscal Year 2025 PY2025 ESG Application Workshop ADECA Director’s Memo Announcing PY2025 ESG Grant Application Workshop and Grant Application Submission Deadline ADECA’s Reminder Memo of Deadline to Submit PY2025 ESG Grant Applications by Friday, June 27, 2025, at 12-Noon See the ESG Application Resources page for more information. PY2024 ESG Compliance Workshop PY2024 ESG Compliance Workshop Memo – DECA Director’s October 17, 2024 Memorandum PY2024 ESG Compliance Workshop Agenda PY2024 ESG Grant List of Funded Applications PY2024 ESG Program Technical Assistance Memo for Unfunded Grant Applications PY2024 ESG Application Workshop See the ESG Application Resources page for more. 2024 ESG Grant Application Workshop and Submission Deadline Memo Previously Funded ESG Projects FY2016-FY2020 ESG Projects FY2019 ESG Project Information FY2020 ESG Project Information PY2021 ESG Project Information PY2022 ESG Project Information PY2023 ESG Project Information PY2024 ESG Project Information PY2025 ESG Project Information PY2023 ESG Grant Applications Received by July 14, 2023 Submission Deadline PY2023 ESG Grant Applications Non-Profit Organizations and Units of Local Governments interested in ESG should contact (334) 353-0288