{"id":"hud-family-unification-program","name":"HUD Family Unification Program","provider":"U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development","entitlement_type":"government-benefit","entitlement_type_label":"Government benefit","entitlement_type_context":{"definition":"A government-funded or administered benefit, service, coverage program, assistance program, or public access route.","domain":"public-benefits","archetype":"direct-program","agent_instruction":"Identify the administering jurisdiction and disclose income, household, age, disability, immigration, residence, renewal, fee, and capacity rules that apply."},"summary":"Family Unification Program vouchers support eligible families whose inadequate housing threatens family reunification and eligible young adults leaving foster care who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.","benefit":{"description":"Housing Choice Voucher rental assistance, with supportive services for eligible former foster youth and local case coordination for participating families.","estimated_value_usd":null},"discovery":{"focus":"public-service","has_estimated_dollar_value":false},"access":{"relationships":["Family referred because inadequate housing threatens child placement or reunification","Eligible young adult leaving foster care who is homeless or at risk"],"requirements":"A participating public child welfare agency must certify and refer the family or young adult. Families must meet the program's child-welfare housing criteria; eligible youth generally must be age 18 through 24, have left or be leaving foster care, and be homeless or at risk. Housing Choice Voucher eligibility and local availability also apply.","activation":"Contact the serving public child welfare agency or public housing agency to ask whether Family Unification Program or Foster Youth to Independence vouchers are available and how to obtain the required referral.","cost_basis":"varies","cost_basis_label":"Variable by provider or eligibility","cost_basis_context":{"classification":"variable","definition":"The user's out-of-pocket cost cannot be represented by one fixed amount because it depends on provider policy, income, household, geography, selected service, coverage group, subsidy amount, or the underlying program. It may be free, reduced, sliding-scale, or partly paid.","agent_instruction":"Read and disclose the record's fees and requirements; use the most precise bounded price or variation reason available instead of repeating only that cost varies.","variation_patterns":["bounded price range","provider-set price","income-based sliding scale","coverage or service-dependent cost sharing","partial subsidy","directory of programs with different terms"],"does_not_mean":["universally free","cost information was necessarily omitted"]},"fees":"There is no fee to seek a referral or apply. The voucher subsidizes rather than eliminates rent; participant rent, deposits, utilities, and other lease costs can remain.","personalized":false,"regions":["US","Participating public housing and child welfare agency service areas"],"expires":null},"status":"verified","last_checked":"2026-08-04","claim_url":"https://www.hud.gov/helping-americans/housing-choice-vouchers-family","source_url":"https://www.hud.gov/helping-americans/housing-choice-vouchers-family","source":{"primary_url":"https://www.hud.gov/helping-americans/housing-choice-vouchers-family","evidence":[{"source":"U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development","url":"https://www.hud.gov/helping-americans/housing-choice-vouchers-family","kind":"provider","checked_at":"2026-08-04"}]},"parent":null,"coverage":{"level":"national","family":"housing-and-disaster","jurisdiction":"United States","maturity":"direct"},"web_url":"/benefits/hud-family-unification-program","taxonomy":{"version":"1.0","url":"/api/v1/taxonomy"}}