Department of Housing and Urban Development · Housing
Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP)
Funds Continuum of Care applicants to develop and implement coordinated community approaches to preventing and ending youth homelessness. CoCs partner with public-child-welfare agencies, schools, and youth-serving organizations.
Program facts
- Typical award
- $1M – $15M
- Non-federal match
- 25% (approximate)
- Audience
- Cities, towns, counties, and tribal governments
- Application window
- Annual NOFO.
- Typical prep time
- 10–18 weeks
- Statutory authority
- Annual HUD appropriations
Catalog entry last verified 2026-05-24 · Verify on the agency page →
Eligibility at a glance
- Cities are eligible applicants.
CoC must be the lead applicant. Amounts and timing approximate; verify directly with administering agency.
How Strategic Pursuit scores this program
When you run a city dossier, Strategic Pursuit cross-checks the city's demographics, federal award history, disaster history, and CEJST burden categories against this program's eligibility and strategic-fit signals. You see an explicit eligibility / strategic / competitive grade — backed by source citations — instead of a generic "match" badge.
Planning purposes only. Award ranges, match percentages, and application windows on this page summarize the latest publicly available agency guidance and are approximate. Always verify the binding NOFO on the administering agency's page before applying.