Youthbuild is a program to allow non-profit organizations to fund projects to assist high-risk youth learn housing construction job skills and complete their high school education. Participants enhance their skills as they construct and/or rehabilitate affordable housing for low-income and homeless persons or families.
About Youthbuild
Youthbuild shows young people how to build new homes for people
in need, and new lives for themselves. Each year, youths who participate
in Youthbuild receive a combination of classroom academic and job
skills development and on-site training in a construction trade.
With support from HUD, Youthbuild participants are able to put their
newly acquired skills to good use rehabilitating and building housing
for low-income and homeless people in their communities.
Youthbuild provides funding to public and private non-profit organizations,
that include community-based organizations, community action agencies,
state or local housing agencies, community development corporations,
and any other entity including States, and units of general local
government eligible to provide education and employment training.
More than $485 million in grants have been awarded since the program's
inception in 1993 enabling over 47,000 young people to construct
or rehabilitate more than 13,000 affordable housing units in their
communities.
YOUTHBUILD AUTHORIZATION: The National Affordable Housing Act, Title
IV, Subtitle D, 42 U.S.C. 8011, as amended; Housing and Community
Act of 1992, Section 164, Public
Law 102-550.
For more information on the Youthbuild program, visit Youthbuild
USA.
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