The question was answered in the comments by John Shareshian. I'm just posting this to have this old question marked as answered. The comments by John explain in detail the answers to the specific questions, but the upshot is: because Young's lattice $Y$ is a (locally finite) distributive lattice, its homological properties are easy to work out explicitly using the standard tools of poset topology.
Sam Hopkins
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