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 Help Of Southern Nevada (doing business as Help Center) $410,632 on July 1, 2026, under the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (CFDA 14.276).

The award funds coordinated community approaches to preventing and ending youth homelessness in Las Vegas, Nevada, including unaccompanied youth and pregnant or parenting youth ages 24 and younger. YHDP eligible activities include acquisition and rehabilitation of real property for housing or supportive services, new construction and leasing of supportive housing, short-term and long-term rental assistance, supportive services to help participants obtain and maintain housing, operating costs of supportive housing, homeless management information system implementation and operation, and program administrative costs.

Help Center is a Las Vegas-based nonprofit that operates five federal funding streams focused on homeless services and supportive housing. The organization's service portfolio includes permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, case management and supportive services for individuals experiencing chronic homelessness, youth-focused interventions including shelter and life-skills training for ages 16-24, HMIS facility operations, and rental assistance serving homeless individuals and families, unaccompanied youth, pregnant and parenting youth, and persons fleeing domestic violence across the Las Vegas region.

The award period runs July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2028, with place of performance in Las Vegas, Nevada 89119.

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.