The purpose of this Request for Application (RFA) is to solicit applications from non-profits and local units of government interested in providing the NC Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Division of Aging Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) services to assist individuals or families that are homeless or at-risk of becoming homeless. The funds are intended to be used as part of a crisis response system using a low barrier housing-focused approach to ensure that homelessness is rare, brief, and one time. Activities include engaging homeless individuals and families living on the street, improving the number and quality of emergency shelters, helping operate emergency shelters, providing essential services to emergency shelter residents, rapidly rehousing homeless individuals and families, and preventing families and individuals from becoming homeless.