Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP)

 
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    CFDA#

    14.276
     

    Funder Type

    Federal Government

    IT Classification

    B - Readily funds technology as part of an award

    Authority

    Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

    Summary

    The goal of the Youth Homelessness 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, including unaccompanied and pregnant or parenting youth. The demonstration has seven primary objectives:

    • Prevent and End Youth Homelessness. Provide funding, regulatory flexibility, and technical assistance to help communities develop housing and services for youth experiencing homelessness and make youth homelessness rare and, if it occurs, brief and non-recurring.
    • Build national momentum. Motivate state and local homelessness stakeholders and youth services providers, including Runaway and Homeless Youth providers across the country to prevent and end youth homelessness by forming new partnerships, addressing system barriers, conducting needs assessments, testing promising strategies, and evaluating their outcomes;
    • Promote equity in the delivery and outcomes of homeless assistance. Recipients should promote equity throughout the community's youth homeless response system for youth who are disproportionally more likely to experience homelessness, such as Black, Indigenous, Hispanic (non-white), and LGBTQ+ youth. Awarded communities will promote equity throughout their youth homeless response system and all YHDP projects will measure and demonstrate equitable delivery and outcomes. This includes identifying barriers that led to any disparities in subpopulations being served and taking steps to eliminate these barriers in the community's youth homeless response system.
    • Highlight the importance of youth leadership: Demonstrate effective models of strong leadership and agency by youth with lived experience in the community. Create replicable best practices of youth leadership for other communities.
    • Evaluate the coordinated community approach. Evaluate coordinated community approaches to preventing and ending youth homelessness, including local and state partnerships across sectors and other coordinated operational planning;
    • Expand capacity. Expand community capacity to serve youth experiencing homelessness (particularly by using a Housing First approach), pilot new models of assistance, and determine what array of interventions is necessary to serve the target population in their community;
    • Evaluate performance measures. Evaluate the use of performance measurement strategies designed to better measure youth outcomes and the connection between youth program outcomes and youth performance measures on overall system performance for the Continuum of Care (CoC); and
    • Establish a framework for Federal program and Technical Assistance (TA) provider collaboration. Determine the most effective way for Federal resources to interact within a state or local system to support a coordinated community approach to preventing and ending youth homelessness.

    The FY 2022 YHDP NOFO has been updated from the FY 2021 NOFO in several ways.

    • Immediately following community selection, HUD will make three percent of the community's total available award amount to support planning activities. This three percent will be included in the ten percent limit for planning projects, outlined in Appendix A.
    • HUD is requiring all project applicants to respond to questions in project applications that demonstrate how the applicant will advance racial equity. Additional information on this requirement is in Section III.D of Appendix A.
    • HUD created a new rating factor focused on serving structurally disadvantaged areas
    • HUD updated rating criteria to better assess community's current progress in addressing youth homelessness.
    • HUD changed the youth collaboration rating factor to require that responses are developed by the Youth Action Board (YAB). Additionally, HUD will accept responses to this rating factor in written, audio, or video format.
    • Additional Special YHDP Activities are identified in Appendix A.
    • Appendix B has been updated to reflect additional requirements of the Coordinated Community Plan, including how the YAB will be engaged in YHDP project selection and implementation and for estimates of the number of housing units that will be created through YHDP projects.
     

    History of Funding

    Up to $72,000,000 was available in FY21 an anticipated 25 awards.

    Up to $145,000,000 was available in FY20 for an anticipated 50 awards.

    Up to $75,000,000 was available in FY19 for an anticipated 25 awards.

    Additional Information

    HUD will share demonstration outcomes and make homeless assistance resources publicly available as quickly as possible to accelerate efforts to prevent and end youth homelessness nationally. In addition, HUD, and to the extent possible, its Federal partners, will work to accelerate HUD and the public's learning related to youth experiencing homelessness and the concepts of:

    • Housing First;
    • Assessment and prioritization;
    • Coordinated entry;
    • Risk and protective factors for youth homelessness;
    • Diversion from child welfare and systems of justice;
    • Success in education and employment;
    • Serving survivors of violence, including trafficking;
    • Promoting equity and cultural sensitivity;
    • Serving LGBTQ+ youth, youth under the age of 18, and pregnant and parenting youth; and
    • Improving performance on system performance measures

    HUD recognizes that there are promising strategies concerning these concepts, but limited evidence to support replication of best practices. Given the importance of advancing our understanding in this topic area, HUD is very interested in communities that will commit to focusing attention on these issues.

    Contacts

    Department of Grants Management and Oversight

    Department of Grants Management and Oversight
    451 7th Street S.W.
    Washington, DC 20410
    (202) 708-0667
     

  • Eligibility Details

    Eligible applicants are state governments; county governments; city or township governments; special district governments; and Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Indian Tribes and tribally designated housing entities as defined in Section 4 of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996.

    Deadline Details

    Applications are to be submitted by June 27, 2023 11:59 ET. A similar deadline is anticipated annually.

    Award Details

    Up to $60,000,000 is available for an anticipated 25 awards. Individual awards will range from $600,000 to $15,000,000 each. HUD will use a formula, outlined below, to determine each selected community's maximum total funding in order to scale awards to estimated community need. The formula uses the following factors: 

    • Youth in Poverty: Number of people age 12-24 who are in poverty in the geographic area (# of youth in poverty, using data from the American Community Survey); 
    • FMR: The 2-bedroom Fair Market Rent (FMR) in the geographic area, and if there is more than one FMR for the geographic area, HUD will calculate a population weighted average (FMR).

    Project periods may extend up to 24-months, however, HUD will allow projects to request a longer initial grant term not to exceed 30 months. HUD has determined that most projects normally take approximately 3 to 6 months to begin fully operating a project (e.g., hiring staff, developing partnerships with landowners if leasing or renting). Therefore, a project may request up to a 30-month grant term that will allow for the additional start-up process. 

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