Housing: county funding allocations: nonminor dependents and young adults

The law broadens access to county housing support and specifies services that can help eligible young adults find, afford, and keep housing.

What the law does ​

• Extends Housing Navigation and Maintenance Program eligibility from ages 18–24 to ages 18–28, subject to annual budget appropriations.
• Requires counties to prioritize nonminor dependents and young adults formerly in the state foster care or probation system.
• Authorizes housing search and voucher help, move-in-cost assistance, landlord incentives, and services supporting housing stability.
• Requires participating counties to train relevant child-welfare social workers and probation officers on local housing resources and referrals.
• Requires annual reporting on people served, homelessness and housing outcomes, and specified federal housing-voucher partnerships and issuances.
• Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to publicly release counties’ voucher-partnership and voucher-issuance information.

Who it affects ​

• Young adults ages 18–28 seeking housing assistance through county child welfare agencies.
• Nonminor dependents and young adults formerly in California’s foster care or probation system.
• County child welfare agencies, their social workers, and probation officers serving nonminor dependents.

Context ​

The Transitional Housing Program remains available to young adults ages 18–24, while its reporting rules are updated to track young adults served and housing outcomes.