Youth Homelessness NOFO for FY2024 and FY2025 | CPD 2600 DC 0035

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The Youth Homelessness NOFO for FY2024 and FY2025 is a discretionary grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that funds community-driven efforts to prevent and end youth homelessness. It is a competitive Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) that supports two related but distinct program tracks, each with its own Assistance Listing Number (ALN): the Youth Homelessness System Improvement (YHSI) grants (ALN 14.277) and the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) (ALN 14.276). Overall, the NOFO is designed to help communities either build stronger coordinated systems for responding to youth homelessness or directly implement housing and supportive service projects that meet the needs of youth experiencing homelessness.

Under the Youth Homelessness System Improvement (YHSI) grants, HUD plans to select about 49 communities. These awards focus on the local “system” side of the work: establishing and implementing a coordinated community response to youth homelessness where one does not exist, or improving an existing response system so it performs better. In practical terms, this track is meant to strengthen the infrastructure and coordination that allows a community to identify youth experiencing homelessness, connect them to appropriate services, align partners (including public agencies and nonprofits), and improve how the overall local homeless response system serves young people.

Under the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP), HUD anticipates selecting between 26 and 50 communities to implement housing and supportive services projects. This track is more oriented toward funding tangible project implementation, such as housing assistance paired with supportive services that address the specific barriers youth face. HUD also signals a geographic priority within YHDP: communities with substantial rural populations are expected to receive priority, with that rural emphasis potentially concentrated in up to sixteen locations. This indicates HUD is trying to ensure the program reaches rural areas where resources are often limited and service delivery challenges can be different than in urban settings.

The NOFO also notes that technical assistance will be made available outside of (and separate from) the grant awards themselves. That technical assistance is intended to help selected communities implement their YHSI and YHDP activities effectively and to support ongoing system improvements. In addition, HUD expects funded communities to participate fully in evaluation activities conducted by HUD, beginning no earlier than the award announcement. In other words, awardees should be prepared for performance monitoring and evaluation requirements as part of demonstrating outcomes and informing future federal efforts on youth homelessness.

Eligibility is broad and includes many typical public and nonprofit entities that work on housing and community development. Eligible applicant types listed include state, county, and city or township governments; special district governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments and other tribal organizations; and nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education). The listing also includes “others,” suggesting HUD may allow additional entity types as specified in the full NOFO. At the same time, the NOFO clearly states that individuals, foreign entities, and sole proprietorships are not eligible to compete for or receive awards.

The opportunity explicitly addresses participation by faith-based organizations. It states that faith-based organizations may apply on the same basis as any other organization, consistent with HUD’s regulations at 24 CFR 5.109, and that they receive the full protections provided by federal law related to religious liberty and nondiscrimination, including constitutional protections and statutes such as the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. The NOFO also explains that an organization may request a religious accommodation if a requirement would substantially burden its religious exercise; HUD will only deny such a request if it meets the strict standard of furthering a compelling governmental interest using the least restrictive means. It further notes that faith-based organizations may make employment decisions on the basis of sincerely held religious beliefs, including requiring adherence to religious tenets and standards of conduct, without losing eligibility for HUD funds, consistent with the cited legal protections and regulations.

Key administrative details include the Funding Opportunity Number CPD 2600 DC 0035 and an original closing date of 2026-08-10. HUD lists an award ceiling of $15,000,000 and expects a total of 73 awards across the combined NOFO. The funding instrument is a grant, and the activity category is community development. In short, this NOFO is structured to fund both system-level improvements and on-the-ground housing/service demonstrations, with an emphasis on measurable implementation, technical assistance support, and participation in evaluation, while welcoming a wide range of governmental, tribal, higher education, and nonprofit applicants, including faith-based organizations under established federal protections.

• The Department of Housing and Urban Development in the community development, oz sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Youth Homelessness NOFO for FY2024 and FY2025" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 14.276, 14.277.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2026-06-10.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2026-08-10. (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 73 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Others.

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