Youth Homeless Demonstration Program | FR 6700 N 35

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The Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) is a competitive grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) designed to help communities build and carry out a coordinated, youth-focused strategy to prevent and end youth homelessness. HUD plans to select up to 24 communities (about 25 awards anticipated overall) to participate in this demonstration, with the central expectation that selected communities will create and implement a Coordinated Community Plan (CCP). The CCP is meant to pull local partners into a single, shared approach that improves how a community identifies youth experiencing homelessness, connects them to help quickly, and delivers housing and supportive services in a way that is youth-centered and effective. Technical assistance is available to participating communities to support both planning and implementation.

Eligibility is narrow: only Continuum of Care (CoC) Collaborative Applicants may apply on behalf of a community. The application is essentially a community selection process, submitted through Grants.gov, and HUD uses published rating and ranking criteria to score applications competitively. At the same time, the notice makes clear HUD reserves discretion to select a lower-scoring application under certain circumstances. Communities seeking selection must show they have the right table of partners involved, including a youth action board (so young people with lived experience help shape decisions), the local or state public child welfare agency, and a broader network of stakeholders needed to address youth homelessness across systems.

The program targets youth age 24 and under who are experiencing homelessness, including unaccompanied youth as well as pregnant or parenting youth. A major emphasis is on understanding the different subgroups of unaccompanied youth and designing responses that match their distinct needs and pathways into homelessness. The NOFO signals that HUD expects communities to go beyond business-as-usual by using innovative practices, strengthening local system coordination, and building projects and policies that can show measurable reductions in youth homelessness.

Funding is substantial and scaled to community need. Selected communities can apply for project funding ranging from about $600,000 up to $15 million per community, with award size based on factors like the community's youth population size and poverty rate. Across the demonstration, HUD expects to fund roughly $60 million total. Funded projects may include all project types allowed under the CoC Program to support homeless youth, and the NOFO also allows communities to propose innovative project types that could require waivers or exceptions from typical CoC Program or McKinney-Vento requirements, as described in the NOFO's appendix. Grants are structured as two-year terms, and projects can later be eligible for renewal under the CoC Program as long as they meet statutory CoC requirements.

Key administrative details from the listing include: the program is a discretionary grant under CFDA 14.276 (Community Development), with an award ceiling of $15,000,000. The opportunity is issued by HUD under Funding Opportunity Number FR 6700 N 35. Eligible applicant types in the posting include state, county, city or township, and special district governments, but the governing eligibility requirement is that applications must be submitted by the CoC Collaborative Applicant for the community. The NOFO indicates community selection applications were due April 25, 2023, with selected communities expected to be announced in July 2023, and the posting also lists an original closing date of June 27, 2023 (11:59:59 PM Eastern), reflecting the overall opportunity timeline as published.

• The US Department of Housing and Urban Development in the community development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Youth Homeless Demonstration Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 14.276.
• This funding opportunity was created on Apr 13, 2023.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 27, 2023 The application deadline is 115959 PM Eastern time on. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $15,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 25 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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