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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Community Planning and Development

Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program

FR-6400-N-35

07/27/2021

Table of Contents Overview

I. FUNDING OPPORTUNITY DESCRIPTION

A. Program Description

B. Authority

II. Award Information

A. Available Funds

B. Number of Awards

C. Minimum/Maximum Award Information

D. Period of Performance

E. Type of Funding Instrument

III. Eligibility Information

A. Eligible Applicants

B. Ineligible Applicants

C. Cost Sharing or Matching

D. Threshold Eligibility Requirements

E. Statutory and Regulatory Requirements Affecting Eligibility

F. Program-Specific Requirements

G. Criteria for Beneficiaries

IV. Application and Submission Information

A. Obtaining an Application Package

B. Content and Form of Application Submission

C. System for Award Management (SAM) and Dun and Bradstreet Universal Numbering System (DUNS) Number

D. Application Submission Dates and Times

E. Intergovernmental Review

F. Funding Restrictions

G. Other Submission Requirements

V. Application Review Information

A. Review Criteria

B. Review and Selection Process

VI. Award Administration Information

A. Award Notices

B. Statutory and Administrative, National and Department Requirements for HUD Recipients

C. Reporting

D. Debriefing

VII. Agency Contact(s)

VIII. Other Information

APPENDIX

Program Office:

Community Planning and Development Funding Opportunity Title:

Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program Funding Opportunity Number:

FR-6400-N-35

Primary CFDA Number:

14.276 Due Date for Applications:

07/27/2021 Overview The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issues this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to invite applications from eligible applicants for the program and purpose described within this NOFO. Prospective applicants should carefully read all instructions in all sections to avoid sending an incomplete or ineligible application. HUD funding is highly competitive. Failure to respond accurately to any submission requirement could result in an incomplete or noncompetitive proposal.

During the selection process HUD is prohibited from disclosing 1) information regarding any applicant’s relative standing, 2) the amount of assistance requested by an applicant, and 3) any information contained in the application. Prior to the application deadline, HUD may not disclose the identity of any applicant or the number of applicants that have applied for assistance.

For Further Information Regarding this NOFO: Please direct questions regarding the specific requirements of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to the office contact identified in Section VII.

Paperwork Reduction Act Statement. The information collection requirements in this notice have been approved by OMB under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501- 3520). In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless the collection displays a valid OMB control number. Each NOFO will identify its applicable OMB control number unless its collection of information is excluded from these requirements under 5 CFR part 1320.

OMB Approval Number(s):

2506-0210

I. FUNDING OPPORTUNITY DESCRIPTION.

A. Program Description.

1. Purpose The goal of the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) is to support selected communities in the development and implementation of a coordinated community approach to preventing and ending youth homelessness, and sharing that experience with and mobilizing communities around the country toward the same end. The population to be served by this demonstration program is youth experiencing homelessness, including unaccompanied and pregnant or parenting youth. The demonstration has six primary objectives:

Build national momentum. Motivate state and local homelessness stakeholders and youth services providers, including Runaway and Homeless Youth providers across the country to prevent and end youth homelessness by forming new partnerships, addressing system barriers, conducting needs assessments, testing promising strategies, and evaluating their outcomes;

Promote equity in the delivery and outcomes of homeless assistance. Promote equity throughout the community's youth homeless response system for Black, Indigenous, Hispanic (non-white), and LGBTQ youth who are disproportionally more likely to experience homelessness than their white, straight, and gender conforming counterparts. Awarded communities will promote equity throughout their youth homeless response system and all YHDP projects will measure and demonstrate equitable delivery and outcomes.[1]

Evaluate the coordinated community approach. Evaluate coordinated community approaches to preventing and ending youth homelessness, including local and state partnerships across sectors and other planning operations;

Expand capacity. Expand community capacity to serve youth experiencing homelessness (particularly by using a Housing First approach), pilot new models of assistance, and determine what array of interventions is necessary to serve the target population in their community;

Evaluate performance measures. Evaluate the use of performance measurement strategies designed to better measure youth outcomes and the connection between youth program outcomes and youth performance measures on overall system performance for the Continuum of Care (CoC); and

Establish a framework for Federal program and TA collaboration. Determine the most effective way for Federal resources to interact within a state or local system to support a coordinated community approach to preventing and ending youth homelessness.

To meet these objectives, HUD will award approximately $145,000,000 in YHDP under this NOFO, including funding appropriated for fiscal year (FY) 2019 on February 15, 2019 through the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 (Public Law 116-6) ("FY 2019 Appropriations Act"), and funding appropriated for FY 2020 on December 20, 2019 through the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116-94) ("FY 2020 Appropriations Act"). The FY 2019 Appropriations Act and FY 2020 Appropriations Act appropriated this funding to HUD "to implement projects to demonstrate how a comprehensive approach to serving homeless youth, age 24 and under ... can dramatically reduce youth homelessness.”

The FY 2019 Appropriations Act appropriated up to $80 million for HUD to select up to 25 communities, including at least eight communities with substantial rural populations. The FY 2020 Appropriations Act appropriated up to $80 million for HUD to select up to 25 communities with a priority for communities with substantial rural populations in up to eight locations. This NOFO is for the selection of the communities under both the FY 2019 Appropriations Act and the FY 2020 Appropriations Act, for a total of up to 50 communities. This NOFO also outlines the methodology HUD will follow to determine award amounts and to alert each community selected of the amount of money available to them through the YHDP. Subject to HUD's right to select lower scoring community selection applications under section III.F.a, HUD will use the community scores under this NOFO along with the formulas in section II.C of this NOFO, to select communities to receive either FY 2019 Appropriations Act funding or FY 2020 Appropriations Act funding and determine the maximum funding to be awarded in each community. The CoC's Collaborative Applicant is responsible for submitting the application for this NOFO.

Once HUD selects the communities, Project Applicants within the selected communities will be able to apply for project funding. Except as otherwise provided in this NOFO or its appendices, all awards and projects funded under this NOFO will be governed by the requirements of 24 CFR part 578, as it may be amended from time to time.

Technical assistance will be available to selected communities to assist them in analyzing community strengths and needs, developing a coordinated community plan (CCP), implementing the plan, and then engaging in a process of continuous quality improvement.

HUD will share outcomes and make resources publicly available as quickly as possible to accelerate efforts to prevent and end youth homelessness nationally. In addition, HUD, and to the extent possible, its Federal partners, will work to accelerate HUD's learning related to youth and the concepts of:

Housing First;

Assessment and prioritization;

Coordinated entry;

Risk and protective factors for youth homelessness;

Diversion from child welfare and systems of justice;

Success in education and employment;

Serving victims of violence, including trafficking;

LGBTQ youth, youth under the age of 18, and pregnant and parenting youth; and System performance measures

HUD recognizes that there are promising strategies concerning these concepts but limited evidence to support replication of best practices. Given the importance of advancing our understanding in this topic area, HUD is very interested in communities that will commit to focusing attention on these issues.

After the application submission deadline, HUD will take several months to assess the applications and select communities. For each community selected under this competition, HUD will make a minimum of $1 million available for total YHDP funding. HUD will use a formula calculated as described in II.C to determine each selected community's maximum total funding in order to scale awards to estimated community need. To determine the maximum total funding a selected community will be eligible to receive, HUD will use the following factors:

Number of people age 12-24 who are in poverty in the geographic area (# of youth in poverty, using data from the American Community Survey);

The 2-bedroom Fair Market Rent (FMR) in the geographic area, and if there is more than one FMR for the geographic area, HUD will calculate a population weighted average

(FMR).

The average for years 2017 and 2019 of the number of unaccompanied youth experiencing homelessness up to age 24 plus the number of parenting youth households headed by a youth experiencing homelessness up to age 24 as reported to HUD in HDX.

If the community does not have youth homelessness data from 2017 and 2019, HUD will use the most recent two counts submitted to HUD in HDX.

Subject to HUD's right to select lower scoring community selection applications under section III.F.a, HUD will allocate funds according to the steps outlined in section II.C. Additional information is also provided in Appendix A.

Once HUD announces the selected communities, communities will have a total of 6 months to submit a coordinated community plan. Communities that need additional time to form their youth action board or develop community capacity to begin the coordinated community planning phase may request up to a 3-month extension of this deadline by emailing youthdemo@hud.gov.

See section III.F.b and Appendix B of this NOFO for further information.

During plan development, Collaborative Applicants or their designee may apply for planning projects to support the selected community's planning efforts. After the CCP is approved, applicants may apply for projects up to the total amount made available to the community under the YHDP. Communities will be expected to fully participate in any evaluation activities conducted by HUD beginning no earlier than the announcement of community selection.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/executive-order-advancing-racial-equity-and-support-for-underserved-communities-through-the-federal-government/

2. Changes from Previous NOFO.

The FY 2019/FY 2020 YHDP NOFO has been updated from the FY 2018 NOFO in several ways.

HUD modified the formula for determining a community's maximum total YHDP funding to include data from Point in Time (PIT) counts in addition to the poverty and fair market rent data included in previous NOFOs, and added new weights to those factors.

HUD updated rating criteria for clarity and to emphasize youth voice and leadership in the YHDP. Additionally, the number of questions in the rating factors is decreased from previous NOFOs in order to decrease burden on applicants file:///C:/Users/H50329/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/INetCache/Content.Outlook/WR7YZ11X/NOFA%20OMB%20track%20changes%203.4.2021.docx#_ftnref1

HUD modified the ranking process for community selection, establishing a minimum score of 65 out of 100 and adding bonus points for up to eight rural applicants seeking FY 2020 funding to ensure adequate representation of rural areas amongst YHDP communities.

HUD changed the threshold requirements for letters of support from the Public Child Welfare Agency (PCWA) and Youth Action Board to a rating factor.

HUD modified the CoC waiver process to provide more flexibility with respect to YHDP projects that do not comply with CoC program requirements. These exceptions are outlined in Appendix A.

HUD moved the detailed explanation of the CCP requirements to Appendix B for clarity.

3. Definitions.

a. Standard Definitions

Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH). Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) means taking meaningful actions, in addition to combating discrimination, that overcome patterns of segregation and foster inclusive communities free from barriers that restrict access to opportunity based on protected characteristics. Specifically, affirmatively furthering fair housing means taking meaningful actions that, taken together, address significant disparities in housing needs and in access to opportunity, replacing segregated living patterns with truly integrated and balanced living patterns, transforming racially and ethnically concentrated areas of poverty into areas of opportunity, and fostering and maintaining compliance with civil rights and fair housing laws. The duty to affirmatively further fair housing extends to all of a program participant’s activities and programs relating to housing and urban development.

Assistance Listings means a unique number assigned to identify a Federal Assistance Listing, formerly known as the CFDA Number.

Federal Financial Assistance means assistance that entities received or administer in the form of:

1) Grant;

2. Cooperative agreements (which does not include a cooperative research and development agreement pursuant to the Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986, as amended (15 U.S.C. 3710a));

3. Loans;

4. Loan guarantees;

5. Subsidies;

6. Insurance;

7. Food commodities;

8. Direct appropriations;

9. Assessed or voluntary contributions; or

10. Any other financial assistance transaction that authorizes the non-Federal entity's expenditure of Federal funds.

b. Federal Financial Assistancedoes not include:

1. Technical assistance, which provides services in lieu of money; and

2. A transfer of title to federally owned property provided in lieu of money, even if the award is called a grant.

Authorized Organization Representative (AOR) is the person authorized to submit applications on behalf of the organization via Grants.gov. The AOR is authorized by the E-Biz point of contact in the System for Award Management. The AOR is listed in item 21 on the SF- 424.

Consolidated Plan is a document developed by states and local jurisdictions. This plan is completed by engaging in a participatory process to assess their affordable housing and community development needs and market conditions, and to make data-driven, place-based investment decisions with funding from formula grant programs. (See 24 CFR part 91 HUD’s requirements regarding the Consolidated Plan and related Action Plan).

Contract means, for the purpose of Federal financial assistance, a legal instrument by which a recipient or subrecipient purchases property or services needed to carry out the project or program under a Federal award. For additional information on contractor and subrecipient determinations see 2 CFR 200.331.

Contractor means an entity that receives a contract as defined in 2 CFR 200.1.

Deficiency is information missing or omitted within a submitted application. Examples of deficiencies include missing documents, information on a form, or some other type of unsatisfied information requirement (e.g., an unsigned form, unchecked box.). Depending on specific criteria, deficiencies may be either curable or non-curable.

Curable Deficiencies may be corrected by the applicant with timely action. To be curable the deficiency must:

Not be a threshold requirement, except for documentation of applicant eligibility;

Not influence how an applicant is ranked or scored versus other applicants; and

Be remedied within the time frame specified in the notice of deficiency.

Non-Curable Deficiencies cannot be corrected by an applicant after the submission deadline.

Non-curable deficiencies are deficiencies that, if corrected, would change an applicant’s score or rank versus other applicants. Non-curable deficiencies may result in an application being marked ineligible, or otherwise adversely affect an application’s score and final determination.

DUNS Number is the nine-digit Dun and Bradstreet Data Universal Number

System identification number assigned to a business or organization by Dun & Bradstreet and provides a means of identifying business entities on a location-specific basis. OMB removed duplicate recipients based on recipient Data Universal Number System (DUNS) numbers, from Dun & Bradstreet (D&B). At this time all Federal financial assistance recipients are required to register for DUNS numbers.

E-Business Point of Contact (E-Biz POC) A user registered as an organization applicant who is responsible for the administration and management of grant activities for his or her organization.

The E-Biz POC is likely to be an organization's chief financial officer or authorizing official. The

E-Biz POC authorizes representatives of their organization to apply on behalf of the organization (see Standard AOR and Expanded AOR). There can only be one E-Biz POC per DUNS Number.)

Eligibility requirements are mandatory requirements for an application to be eligible for funding.

Federal award, has the meaning, depending on the context, in either paragraph (1) or (2) of this definition:

(1)(i) The Federal financial assistance that a recipient receives directly from a Federal awarding agency or a subrecipient receives indirectly from a pass-through entity, as described in 2 CFR §200.101; or

ii. The cost-reimbursement contract under the Federal Acquisition Regulations that a non- Federal entity receives directly from a Federal awarding agency or indirectly from a pass-through entity, as described in 2 CFR §200.101.

2. The instrument setting forth the terms and conditions. The instrument is the grant agreement, cooperative agreement, other agreement for assistance covered in paragraph

(2) of the definitions of Federal financial assistance in 2 CFR §200.1, or the cost-reimbursement contract awarded under the Federal Acquisition Regulations.

3. Federal award does not include other contracts that a Federal agency uses to buy goods or services from a contractor or a contract to operate Federal Government owned, contractor operated facilities (GOCOs).

4. See also definitions of Federal financial assistance, grant agreement, and cooperative agreement.

Grants.gov is the website serving as the Federal government’s central portal for searching and applying for Federal financial assistance throughout the Federal government. Registration on Grants.gov is required for submission of applications to prospective agencies unless otherwise specified in this NOFO.

Non-Federal Entity (NFE) means a state, local government, Indian tribe, Institution of Higher Education (IHE), or non-profit organization that carries out a Federal award as a recipient or subrecipient.

Point of Contact (POC) is the person who may be contacted with questions about the application submitted by the AOR. The POC is listed in item 8F on the SF-424.

Recipient means an entity, usually but not limited to non-Federal entities, that receives a Federal award directly from HUD. The term recipient does not include subrecipients or individuals that are beneficiaries of the award.

Small business is defined as a privately-owned corporation, partnership, or sole proprietorship that has fewer employees and less annual revenue than a corporation or regular-sized business.

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Subaward means an award provided by a pass-through entity to a subrecipient for the subrecipient to carry out part of a Federal award received by the pass-through entity. It does not include payments to a contractor or payments to an individual that is a beneficiary of a Federal program. A subaward may be provided through any form of legal agreement, including an agreement that pass-through entity considers a contract.

Subrecipient means an entity, usually but not limited to non-Federal entities, that receives a subaward from a pass-through entity to carry out part of a Federal award but does not include an individual that is a beneficiary of such award. A subrecipient may also be a recipient of other Federal awards directly for a Federal awarding agency.

System for Award Management (SAM) means the Federal Repository into which an entity must provide information required for the conduct of business as a recipient. Registration with SAM is required for submission of applications via Grants.gov. You can access the website athttps://www.sam.gov/SAM/. There is no cost to use SAM.

Threshold Requirements are an eligibility requirement that must be met for an application to be reviewed. Threshold requirements are not curable, except for documentation of applicant eligibility and are listed in Section III.D Threshold Eligibility Requirements. Similarly, there are eligibility requirements under Section III.E, Statutory and Regulatory Requirements Affecting Eligibility.

Unique Entity Identifier means the identifier required for SAM registration to uniquely identify business entities.

4. Program Definitions

a. Collaborative Applicant - The eligible entity that has been designated by the CoC during the FY 2020 CoC Program Registration Process to apply for a grant on behalf of the CoC. The Collaborative Applicant must be the "Applicant" for each community applying for participation in the demonstration. In cases where the CoC needed to change the Collaborative Applicant and that change was approved after this NOFO was published but before the deadline for submissions, that approved replacement Collaborative Applicant is the eligible applicant for this

NOFO.

b. Community - Self-organized network of people in a defined geographic area with common agenda, cause, or interest, who collaborate by sharing ideas, information, and other resources.

The community must be within a geographic boundary of a single CoC.

c. Continuum of Care (CoC) - the group organized to carry out the responsibilities required under 24 CFR Part 578 and that is composed of representatives of organizations, including non-profit homeless providers, victim service providers, faith-based organizations, governments, businesses, advocates, public housing agencies, school districts, social service providers, mental health agencies, hospitals, universities, affordable housing providers, law enforcement, organizations that serve homeless and formerly homeless veterans, and homeless and formerly homeless persons; to the extent these groups are represented within the geographic area and are available to participate.

d. Housing First - a model of assistance that prioritizes rapid placement and stabilization in permanent housing that does not have service participation requirements or preconditions (such as sobriety or a minimum income threshold). Transitional housing and supportive service only projects can be considered to be using a Housing First model for the purposes of this NOFO if https://www.sam.gov/SAM/ they operate with low-barriers, work to quickly move people into permanent housing, do not require participation in supportive services, and, for transitional housing projects, do not require any preconditions for moving into the transitional housing (e.g., sobriety or minimum income threshold).

e. Project Applicant - an eligible applicant, as defined in section 24 CFR 578.3 of the CoC Program interim rule, that is designated by the Collaborative Applicant or its designee to apply for assistance under the YHDP and is a private non-profit organization, State, local government, or instrumentality of State or local government. However, if the Collaborative Applicant is a UFA, the Project Applicant must be the UFA. If the Project Applicant is applying for a dedicated HMIS grant, the Project Applicant must be the Collaborative Applicant or the HMIS Lead. All Project Applicants must receive the approval of their Youth Action Board for projects contained in their applications.

f. Public Child Welfare Agency - the governmental entity that has care, custody and responsibility for children in foster care and is responsible for the provision of services and support to youth who have left foster care after age 18 to age 21.

g. Rural - a county or group of counties designated by the applicant in which:

the population in the CoC has more people residing in rural areas than either suburban or urban areas, based on data from the Census Bureau. Applicants qualifying under this element of the rural definition must designate the entire CoC's geographic area as the geographic area of the community in IV.B.1 of this NOFO; or the population across the designated counties included in the geographic area, which does not encompass the entire CoC, has more people residing in rural areas than either suburban or urban areas, based on data from the Census Bureau; or the designated geographical area is located in a state that has a population density of less than 30 persons per square mile (as reported in the most recent decennial census), and at least 1.25 percent of the total acreage of such State is under Federal jurisdiction, provided that no metropolitan city in such State is the sole beneficiary of the grant amounts awarded under this NOFO.

h. Trauma Informed Care (TIC) Model - An approach that recognizes the widespread impact of trauma and understands potential paths for recovery, recognizes the signs and symptoms of trauma in clients, families, staff and others involved with the system, responds by fully integrating knowledge about trauma into policies, procedures, and practices and seeks to actively resist re-traumatization. TIC models generally include a focus on the following: Safety;

Trustworthiness and Transparency; Peer Support; Collaboration and Mutuality; Empowerment;

Voice and Choice; and Cultural, Historical, and Gender Issues.

i. Unified Funding Agency (UFA) - an eligible applicant selected by the CoC to apply for a grant for the entire Continuum, which has the capacity to carry out the duties in 24 CFR 578.11(b), which is approved by HUD and to which HUD awards a grant.

j. Youth - Persons aged 24 and younger (has not reached their 25th birthday).

Unaccompanied Youth - persons who are age 24 or younger, who are not part of a family with children.

Pregnant or Parenting Youth – Individual heads of households who are age 24 or younger who are pregnant or who are the parents or legal guardians of one or more children who are present with or sleeping in the same place as that youth parent.

Transition Age Youth- persons between age 18 and 24.

k. Youth Action Board (YAB)- A group of at least 3 youth with voting power on policy decisions of the CoC, particularly on policies that relate to preventing and ending youth homelessness. Each YAB member must be age 24 or younger, and at least two-thirds of the YAB members must have lived experience of homelessness and should be representative of the youth and young adult population experiencing homelessness in the community. The Youth Action Board must be a formal committee within the CoC.

B. Authority.

The FY 2019 funds announced in this NOFO were authorized by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 (Public Law 116-6), approved February 15, 2019, as amended by section 238 of division L of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (Public Law 116-260), approved December 27, 2020. The FY 2020 funds announced in this NOFO were authorized by the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116-94), approved December 20, 2019.

II. Award Information.

A. Available Funds Funding of approximately $ 145,000,000 is available through this NOFO.

Additional funds may become available for award under this NOFO, because of HUD's efforts to recapture funds, use carryover funds, or because of the availability of additional appropriated funds. Use of these funds is subject to statutory constraints. All awards are subject to the funding restrictions contained in this NOFO.

B. Number of Awards.

HUD expects to make approximately 50 awards from the funds available under this NOFO.

A Collaborative Applicant can apply on behalf of more than one community; however, HUD will not select more than one community within a CoC's geographic area. HUD will select at least 8 rural applicants to receive FY 2019 funding under this NOFO, provided that they meet a minimum score of 65 out of 100 points, outlined in section V.A.1. If there are fewer than 8 rural applications that meet a minimum score of 65 points, HUD will select the next most rural applicant who meets this baseline score of 65 points. HUD considers the "next most rural" as the applicant that has the highest percentage of population living in rural areas that scores at or above the baseline score of 65, provided that the designated geographic area in the application does not have less than 25% of the population living in rural areas, which HUD has determined is a substantial rural population.

HUD will consider applications from Collaborative Applicants within CoCs that were awarded for less than the total geographic area of the CoC in the FY 2016, FY 2017, or FY 2018 YHDP competitions. Any area that was included in previous YHDP awards may not be included in the application for such areas.

HUD intends to award approximately $145,000,000.

C. Minimum/Maximum Award Information For each community selected under this competition, HUD will make a minimum of $1 million available for total YHDP funding. This total funding may be split among any number of projects in the community. For example, YHDP funding within a selected community may be used for one project or split among 10 projects.

The total YHDP funding available to each selected community will be based on a formula that accounts for the number of youth in poverty in each community ages 12 to 24 (using data from the American Community Survey), the average for years 2017 and 2019 of the number of unaccompanied youth up to age 24 plus the number of households headed by a youth up to age 24 who are experiencing homelessness as reported to HUD in HDX (or most recent two counts submitted to HUD in HDX if the community does not have homelessness data from 2017 and 2019), and the 2- bedroom FMR for the geographic area listed in the community application (if there is more than one FMR for the geographic area, HUD will calculate a population weighted average (FMR)). In addition, the formula ensures that the amount of funding communities receive is adjusted for the size and level of need in selected communities.

HUD will rank community applications in order of responses to the rating factors outlined in section V.A.1 of this NOFO; only applications that receive a score of 65 points or higher will be considered for funding. HUD will use the following process to select communities and determine the total funding to be made available in each community under the FY 2019 Act or the FY 2020 Act.

FY 2019 Appropriations: HUD will select the 8 highest scoring rural communities and the top 8 scorers from the remaining communities, apply the formula to those 16 communities, then select further communities and redo the formula for all selected communities as explained below.

1. For each selected community, HUD will multiply the number of youth ages 12-24 who are in poverty in the community by the 2-bedroom FMR for the geographic area listed in the community application. This is called the community's "poverty formula factor."

2. For each selected community, HUD will divide the community's poverty formula factor by the sum of the poverty formula factors for all communities selected. This is called the "poverty community ratio."

3. For each selected community, HUD will calculate the "youth homelessness factor" by taking the average for 2017 and 2019 of the number of unaccompanied youth experiencing homelessness up to age 24 plus the number of households headed by a youth experiencing homelessness up to age 24 as reported to HUD in HDX. If the community does not have youth homelessness data from 2017 and 2019, HUD will use the most recent two counts submitted to HUD in HDX.

4. For each selected community, HUD will divide the community's youth homelessness factor by the sum of the youth homelessness factors for all selected communities. This is called the “homelessness community ratio.”

5. HUD will allocate an initial formula amount of $1 million to each selected community.

6. For each selected community, HUD will multiply its poverty community ratio by 0.7 times the total YHDP funding remaining after step 5, and multiply the homelessness community ratio by 0.3 times the total YHDP funding remaining after step 5, and add these two figures to the community's initial formula amount in step 5 to come up with the community's new formula amount.

7. HUD will calculate the ratio of the formula amount for each selected community to the poverty formula factor (see step 1) of that community.

If no ratio calculated in step 7 is less than 0.09, then HUD will select the next highest-scoring community from the applicant pool and redo steps 1 through 7 for all selected communities.

HUD will repeat this process (selecting the next highest-scoring community and redoing steps 1 through 7 for all selected communities), until any ratio calculated in step 7 is less than 0.09 or 25 communities are selected and receive formula amounts. The purpose of this step is to ensure that each selected community receives enough funding to have a substantial impact. It does this by setting a minimum level of funding, adjusted for the size of selected communities and level of need. If no selected community is below the ratio calculated in Step 7, HUD will select additional communities. Once a selected community falls below a ratio of .09 or 25 communities are selected and receive formula amounts, HUD will stop selecting communities.

FY 2020 Appropriations: HUD will remove communities awarded funding under the FY 2019 funding from the ranked application list, and select the next 16 highest scoring applications, and apply the formula described above. If no ratio calculated in step 7 is less than 0.08, then HUD will select the next highest-scoring community from the applicant pool and redo steps 1 through 7 for all selected communities. HUD will repeat this process (selecting the next highest-scoring community and redoing steps 1 through 7 for all selected communities), until any ratio calculated in step 7 is less than 0.08 or 25 communities are selected and receive formula amounts. This step applies the same process for determining how many communities are selected with FY 2020 funds as for FY 2019, but uses a ratio of .08 rather than .09. As described above, the purpose of this step is to ensure that each selected community receives enough funding to have a substantial impact. It does this by setting a minimum level of funding, adjusted for the size of selected communities and level of need. The minimum ratio calculated in step 7 for selected communities for FY 2019 funding is higher than the minimum ratio calculated in step 7 for selected communities for FY 2020 funding to provide higher levels of funding for communities that scored higher and are selected with FY 2019 funding.

Estimated Total Funding:

$ 145,000,000 Minimum Award Amount:

$ 1,000,000 Per Project Period

Maximum Award Amount:

$ 15,000,000 Per Project Period

D. Period of Performance Project Applicants within selected communities may apply for projects designed to implement the CCP to prevent and end youth homelessness immediately following the approval of the CCP and up until 11:59:59 PM EDT, July 1, 2022 or until the community ceases to participate or the available funds have been depleted (whichever is earlier). During plan development, Collaborative Applicants for their designee may apply for planning projects to support the selected community's planning efforts. Public Law No: 116-94 and Public Law No: 116-260) requires HUD to obligate YHDP funds by September 30, 2022. The period of performance for each award will be determined as provided below. HUD may amend the grant agreement to extend this period of performance. However, in no case will HUD authorize expenditures or drawdown of FY 2019 funds beyond the date HUD's FY 2019 YHDP account must be closed under applicable law or for administrative purposes (approximately September 15, 2027). Project Applicants must plan accordingly and only submit applications that can start operations in a timely manner with sufficient time to complete the post award process and the awarded grant term.

The period of performance for all grants will begin on the project start date HUD enters into LOCCS after the recipient makes its first drawdown of funds. All grants for projects will be for an initial 2-year grant term, except for CoC planning projects which will be for a 1-year grant term and are non-renewable. Collaborative applicants within selected communities can apply for more than one planning project over the course of the YHDP. All projects, except planning projects may be eligible for 1-year renewal terms after the initial grant term expires beginning with the next CoC Program Competition as further explained in section I.C.1 of Appendix A. If a community cannot successfully complete the development of a CCP or must otherwise withdraw from the demonstration, the funding HUD has made available but did not obligate to projects in that community will be made available to the other selected communities or other communities HUD selects as provided in section II.C subject to HUD's right to select lower scoring community selection applications under section III.F.a, provided that sufficient funds are available.

Estimated Project Start Date:

10/01/2021 Estimated Project End Date:

07/01/2024 Length of Project Periods:

24-month project period and budget period

Other

12-month project period and budget period

Length of Periods Explanation of Other:

HUD will award planning projects for a 1-year non-renewable grant term. All other approved projects will be awarded for 2-year grant terms and may be renewed for 1-year grant terms under the CoC Program as explained in section I.C of Appendix A.

E. Type of Funding Instrument.

Funding Instrument Type:

G (Grant) III. Eligibility Information.

A. Eligible Applicants.

00 (State governments)

01 (County governments)

02 (City or township governments)

04 (Special district governments)

25 (Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification))

Additional Information on Eligibility

(25) Other - Nonprofits, as demonstrated by criteria at 24 CFR 5.109(l)(1) through 24 CFR 5.109(l)(5).

Community Selection application:

Available to Collaborative Applicants designated by CoCs registered through the FY 2020 CoC Program Registration process. The Collaborative Applicant can apply for any community located within its CoC’s geographic area. The Collaborative Applicant can also apply for multiple communities located within its CoC’s geographic area; however, HUD will not select more than one community within a CoC's geographic area.

Project application:

Project Applicants that are designated during the application process by the Collaborative Applicant or its designee are eligible to apply for grant funds. The Collaborative Applicant may apply for projects under this Demonstration as well. The Collaborative Applicants that are not Unified Funding Agencies (UFAs) may also designate an eligible applicant to be the recipient of the planning grant. UFAs must apply for and be recipient of all grants for their Community. For-profit entities are not eligible to apply for grants or to be subrecipients of grant funds.

For a dedicated HMIS grant, the application must either be from the UFA (when there is a UFA for the community) or the HMIS Lead (when there is no UFA for the community) that will be the grant recipient.

To be considered for funding, Project Applicants must complete the information required by HUD, receive the approval of the YAB for their project(s) through a letter of support, and receive the approval of the CoC to apply for funding, as signed off on by the Collaborative Applicant or its designee.

This NOFO application is for community selection only. Applications for funding individual projects will occur after communities have been selected. Requirements for applying for projects are detailed in Appendix A.

As required in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) at 2 CFR 25.200 and 24 CFR Part 5 Subpart K, all applicants for financial assistance must have an active Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number (http://fedgov.dnb.com/webform) and have an active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM) (www.sam.gov) before submitting an application.

Getting a DUNS number and completing SAM registration can take up to four weeks. Therefore, applicants should start this process or check their status early. See Section IV.C for information on SAM and the DUNS number requirement.

See also Section IV.B for necessary form and content information.

B. Ineligible Applicants.

Ineligible Applicants. HUD will not consider an application from an ineligible applicant. HUD will only score applications for community selection that are completed by a CoC’s Collaborative Applicant.

C. Cost Sharing or Matching.

This Program requires cost sharing or matching as described below.

This NOFO requires a Project Applicant to leverage resources through cost sharing or matching as described in the regulation at 24 CFR 578.73, except as otherwise provided in Appendix A.

D. Threshold Eligibility Requirements.

Applicants who fail to meet any of the following threshold eligibility requirements will be deemed ineligible. Applications from ineligible applicants will not be evaluated.

1. Resolution of Civil Rights Matters. Outstanding civil rights matters must be resolved before the application deadline. Applicants, who after review are confirmed to have civil rights matters unresolved at the application deadline, will be deemed ineligible. Their applications will receive no further review, will not be rated and ranked, and they will not receive funding.

a. Applicants having any of the charges, cause determinations, lawsuits, or letters of findings referenced in subparagraphs (1) – (5) that have not been resolved to HUD’s satisfaction before or on the application deadline date are ineligible for funding. Such matters include:

1. Charges from HUD concerning a systemic violation of the Fair Housing Act or receipt of a cause determination from a substantially equivalent state or local fair housing agency concerning a systemic violation of a substantially equivalent state or local fair housing law proscribing discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or familial status;

2. Status as a defendant in a Fair Housing Act lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice alleging a pattern or practice of discrimination or denial of rights to a group of persons raising an issue of general public importance under 42 U.S.C. 3614(a);

3. Status as a defendant in any other lawsuit filed or joined by the Department of Justice, or in which the Department of Justice has intervened, or filed an amicus brief or statement of interest, alleging a pattern or practice or systemic violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 109 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, the Americans with Disabilities Act or a claim under the False Claims Act related to fair housing, non-discrimination, or civil rights generally including an alleged failure to affirmatively further fair housing;

4. Receipt of a letter of findings identifying systemic non-compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 109 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974; or the Americans with Disabilities Act; or

5. Receipt of a cause determination from a substantially equivalent state or local fair housing agency concerning a systemic violation of provisions of a state or local law prohibiting discrimination in housing based on sexual orientation, gender identity, or lawful source of income.

b. HUD will determine if actions to resolve the charge, cause determination, lawsuit, or letter of findings taken before the application deadline date will resolve the matter.

Examples of actions that may be sufficient to resolve the matter include, but are not limited to:

1. Current compliance with a voluntary compliance agreement signed by all the parties;

2. Current compliance with a HUD-approved conciliation agreement signed by all the parties;

3. Current compliance with a conciliation agreement signed by all the parties and approved by the state governmental or local administrative agency with jurisdiction over the matter;

4. Current compliance with a consent order or consent decree;

5. Current compliance with a final judicial ruling or administrative ruling or decision; or

6. Dismissal of charges.

2. Timely Submission of Applications. Applications submitted after the deadline stated within this NOFO that do not meet the requirements of the grace period policy will be marked late. Late applications are ineligible and will not be considered for funding. See Section IV. D. Application Submission Dates and Times.

E. Statutory and Regulatory Requirements Affecting Eligibility.

Eligibility Requirements for Applicants of HUD’s Grants Programs The following requirements affect applicant eligibility. Detailed information on each requirement is posted on HUD’s Funding Opportunities Page.

Active Prime and Sub Recipient registration with SAM.gov Outstanding Delinquent Federal Debts Debarments and/or Suspensions Pre-selection Review of Performance Sufficiency of Financial Management System False Statements Mandatory Disclosure Requirement Prohibition Against Lobbying Activities Equal Participation of Faith-Based Organizations in HUD Programs and Activities https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/spm/gmomgmt/grantsinfo/fundingopps

F. Program-Specific Requirements.

a. Identifying a Target Community Area Applicants have the option of identifying the entire geographic area of the CoC as the demonstration community or designating a smaller area that includes a single community or group of communities within the CoC’s geographic area as the YHDP community. In addition, the CoC can designate the application as a rural community application, competing for the 8 reserved rural community selection availabilities for FY 2019 funding and the prioritization of up to 8 rural communities for FY 2020 funding. If an applicant decides to submit two applications, one for the rural communities within the CoC and one for the non-rural areas or the entire CoC, HUD will consider both applications independently but will only select one community per CoC. In general, HUD will select the higher scoring application of the two;

however, HUD reserves the right to select the lower scoring application if there are no other qualifying applications in the competition group (rural or non-rural) or if the next qualifying application in that group is lower in quality by a significant degree.

HUD has determined that geographic diversity is an appropriate consideration in selecting communities for the YHDP. To this end, HUD reserves the right to fund eligible communities with the highest total score in each of the 10 HUD regions. In addition, HUD will also consider the size of the overall population to ensure that urban, suburban, and rural communities are selected and balanced across the FY 2019 and FY 2020 awards, to ensure that one round of funding does not contain an imbalanced number of very large cities.

Applicants are required to respond to the questions listed in Section V.A.1 regarding their proposed geographic area for the YHDP. Eligibility as a Rural Community will be determined based on the geographic areas selected in the SF-424; number of youth experiencing poverty will be verified using Federal census data. If not enough Rural Communities score high enough to qualify for selection for the FY 2019 funding, HUD will select the "next most rural" communities that do meet the scoring threshold as outlined in section II.B. HUD will consider applications from CoCs that were awarded for less than the total area of the CoC in the FY 2016, FY 2017, and FY 2018 competitions, provided that none of the geographic area was covered in the previously awarded application.

b. Develop a coordinated community plan Selected communities are required to develop a CCP to prevent and end youth homelessness.

Communities selected for funding under this Notice will have a…