Federal grant programs / Department of Housing and Urban Development

Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (14.276)

• Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$419 million
• Grant awards699
• Typical award$395,795
• Awarded in FY 2025$75.9 million
• Size rank411 of 1,823
• Type of assistanceDirect payments for specified use

Key findings

• Annual funding rose from $18.4 million in fiscal 2021 to $75.9 million in fiscal 2025.
• It is the 411th largest of 1,823 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
• The 20 largest recipients received 32% of the money.
• Awards went to recipients in 44 states and territories.

What the program funds

The goal of the Youth Homeless Demonstration Program (YHDP) is to support selected communities in the development and implementation of a coordinated community approach to preventing and ending youth homelessness and sharing that experience with and mobilizing communities around the country toward the same end. The population to be served by this demonstration program is youth experiencing homelessness, age 24 and under, including unaccompanied youth and pregnant or parenting youth who are experiencing homelessness. HUD will award approximately $72,000,000 in YHDP under this NOFO through funding appropriated for fiscal year (FY) 2023 through the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (Public Law 117-328) ("FY 2023 Appropriations Act). The FY 2023 Appropriations Act appropriated this funding to HUD "to implement projects to demonstrate how a comprehensive approach to serving homeless youth, age 24 and under ... can dramatically reduce youth homelessness.”

From the federal Assistance Listing. Read the full listing on SAM.gov.

Open opportunities

No opportunity under this program is open or forecast on Grants.gov right now. Programs often post once a year, so the funding history below shows what to expect.

Rules from the program listing

Who can apply

Organization that serve homeless unaccompanied youth (age 24 and younger) and homeless youth (age 24 and younger) with children.

What the money can and cannot pay for

Eleven types of assistance may be provided through the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program: (1) acquisition of real property (including structures) for use in the provision of housing or supportive services; (2) rehabilitation of structures to provide housing or supportive services; (3) new construction, including the building of a new structure or building an addition to an existing structure for use as supportive housing; (4) leasing of a new structure or structures, or portions thereof, to provide housing or supportive services; (5) rental assistance, which may be short-term, medium-term, or long-term, as well as tenant-based, project-based, or sponsor-based, for transitional or permanent housing; (6) supportive services to assist program participants obtain and maintain housing; (7) operating costs of supportive housing; (8) costs of implementing and operating HMIS; (9) program administrative costs; (10) relocation costs; and (11) indirect costs in accordance with 2 CFR Part 200, as applicable. No assistance provided under this program (or any State or local government funds used to supplement this assistance) may be used to replace State or local funds previously used, or designated for use, to assist homeless persons or persons at-risk of homelessness.;

Matching requirements

This program has no statutory formula. This NOFO requires a Project Applicant to leverage resources through cost sharing or matching as described in the regulation at 24 CFR 578.73, except as otherwise provided in Appendix A.MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

Deadlines

Contact the headquarters or regional location, as appropriate, for application deadlines

Award range and average, in the agency's words

For each community selected under this competition, HUD will make a minimum of $600,000 available for total YHDP funding. This total funding may be split among any number of projects in the community.

Quoted from the program's federal Assistance Listing. The notice of funding opportunity is the official source for each competition's rules.

Who usually wins

By state

41 states have a page for this program: those that received at least $1 million or 10 awards.

Award amounts are federal obligations reported to USAspending.gov for fiscal 2021 to 2025; see how our data works.