Assistance program
Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program
$531.9 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, Housing and Urban Development, Department of
- Assistance
- Direct Payments for Specified Use
- CFDA number
- 14.276
- What it does
- 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.â€
- Who benefits
- Homeless unaccompanied youth (age 24 and younger) and homeless youth (age 24 and younger) with children.
- Who applies
- Organization that serve homeless unaccompanied youth (age 24 and younger) and homeless youth (age 24 and younger) with children.
- Authorized by
- Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 (Public Law 116-6) Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116-94) Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (Public Law 116-260) Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 (Public Law 117-103) Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (…
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how this program's money is paid out.
Direct payments
$54.1M
10%
Grants
$477.8M
90%
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
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- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments