Homeless Children and Youth Act of 2025

Summary

Makes targeted changes to the McKinney‑Vento Homeless Assistance Act to tighten and clarify who is eligible for homeless assistance programs, require wider and more frequent public reporting of Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) data, change how HUD scores grant applications, and add new reporting requirements to Congress. It requires communities to count people identified as homeless by any federally funded program, requires HUD to publish HMIS data at least annually, and bars HUD from favoring a subpopulation, program model, or national priority absent local data support.

Key Points

• Clarifies and expands definitions for children and youth covered by other federal programs for McKinney‑Vento purposes.
• Requires communities to count everyone identified as homeless by any federally funded program in local counts.
• Directs HUD to post HMIS data publicly and to update the public data at least once a year.
• Changes how HUD scores homeless assistance grant applications and restricts HUD from favoring program types or subpopulations without local-data support.

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