The youth homelessness demonstration program (yhdp) aims to support selected communities in developing and implementing a coordinated community approach to preventing and ending youth homelessness

The Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded Ozone House, Inc. $930,001 on April 1, 2026, through the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (CFDA 14.276) to support coordinated community approaches to preventing and ending youth homelessness in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

Ozone House, a tax-exempt nonprofit based in Ypsilanti, will deliver emergency shelter, transitional and permanent supportive housing, rental assistance (short-term, medium-term, and long-term formats), street outreach, case management, and supportive services targeting unaccompanied youth and pregnant or parenting youth aged 24 and younger, with particular focus on LGBTQ+ runaway and homeless youth. The program's eligible activities include acquisition or rehabilitation of real property for housing or supportive services, new construction, leasing, rental assistance, supportive services, operating costs of supportive housing, HMIS implementation and operation, program administration, and relocation costs.

The award obligates $930,001 for the period April 1, 2026, through September 30, 2028. This is one of two concurrent YHDP grants held by Ozone House; the organization also received a $3.13 million YHDP award with the same performance window. The YHDP aims to build national momentum, promote equity in homeless assistance delivery and outcomes, highlight youth leadership, evaluate the coordinated community approach, expand capacity, and establish a framework for federal program and technical assistance collaboration.

Activities

Eleven types of assistance may be provided through the yhdp: 1. Acquisition of real property (including structures) for use in the provision of housing or supportive services; 2. Rehabilitation of structures to provide housing or supportive services; 3. New construction, including the building of a new structure or building an addition to an existing structure for use as supportive housing; 4. Leasing of a new structure or structures, or portions thereof, to provide housing or supportive services; 5. Rental assistance, which may be short-term, medium-term, or long-term, as well as tenant-based, project-based, or sponsor-based, for transitional or permanent housing; 6. Supportive services to assist program participants obtain and maintain housing; 7. Operating costs of supportive housing; 8. Costs of implementing and operating homeless management information system (hmis); 9. Program administrative costs; 10. Relocation costs; and 11. Indirect costs in accordance with 2 CFR part 200, as applicable. No assistance provided under this program (or any state or local government funds used to supplement this assistance) may be used to replace state or local funds previously used, or designated for use, to assist homeless persons or persons at-risk of homelessness.

Expected outcomes

As a result of developing and implementing a coordinated community approach to preventing and ending youth homelessness, there will be: • significant decrease in the number of youth experiencing homelessness. • increased income, education, health, and social/emotional well-being of participants. • community-level understanding of the number and needs of youth at-risk of and experiencing homelessness. • new or improved partnerships between youth-serving organizations in the community.

Intended beneficiaries

Homeless unaccompanied youth (age 24 and younger) and homeless youth (age 24 and younger) with children.

Subrecipient activities

The subrecipient activities are unknown at the time of award.