FY 2026 Youth Homelessness NOFO (YHDP and YHSI Grants)
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Community Planning and Development
Funds new Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program communities and Youth Homelessness System Improvement grants. Selected communities must assess youth needs, build a coordinated community plan, and may test new approaches.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)HUD publishes pool figures, not per-award limits: $144 million for between 26 and 50 new YHDP communities and $49 million for YHSI grants. HUD's YHDP fact sheet shows past community awards ranging roughly $1 million to $8 million, but that is historical, not a published FY2026 ceiling.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · AugPublished deadline: 2026-08-10 — passed. Kept for reference; check the funder's page for the next cycle.The FY2026 NOFO was published 6/10/2026 with applications due 8/10/2026. HUD's funding opportunities listing shows the FY2024/FY2025 Youth Homelessness NOFO on the same 8/10/2026 date.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner, Mid-career & senior
- Eligibility
- Awards go to communities, not individual researchers. A community must convene a Youth Action Board of youth with current or past lived experience of homelessness to lead planning, and must bring in housing providers, child welfare and school agencies, workforce organisations, and the juvenile justice system.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- youth homelessness · coordinated community plan · needs assessment · lived experience · system improvement
- Apply at
- https://www.hud.gov/hud-partners/community-youth
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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