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.