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's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development awarded Lakes & Prairies Community Action Partnership, Inc. $728,870 on April 1, 2026, under the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (CFDA 14.276) to support a coordinated community approach to preventing and ending youth homelessness.

The award funds eleven eligible activity categories: property acquisition and rehabilitation, new construction, leasing, rental assistance in short-, medium-, and long-term formats (tenant-based, project-based, or sponsor-based), supportive services to help program participants obtain and maintain housing, operating costs of supportive housing, Homeless Management Information System implementation and operation, program administration, and relocation assistance. The program targets unaccompanied youth and pregnant or parenting youth aged 24 and younger in Moorhead, Minnesota.

The period of performance runs from April 1, 2026, through September 30, 2028, with all work performed in Moorhead, Minnesota. Lakes & Prairies Community Action Partnership is a tax-exempt nonprofit based in Moorhead that operates as a federal grant recipient focused on homelessness prevention and youth housing support across Minnesota and North Dakota.

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.