transitional housing
Bridge to permanence
Transitional housing is temporary shelter designed to bridge the gap between homelessness and permanent housing.
Programs typically provide supportive services—job training, counseling, life skills—alongside housing for a limited period, usually six months to two years: The shelter helped her find transitional housing while she got back on her feet.
- halfway housesSupervised post-incarceration residences
- life skills trainingTeaching practical daily competencies
- refugeesPeople seeking safety elsewhere
- case managementOverseeing individual client services
- veteransFormer armed forces members
reentry · second chance · single parents · job training programs · mental health services · group homes · counseling services · program · shelter · sobriety · nonprofit organizations · eviction · beds · safe haven · roof over head · placement · bridge · sober
- housingapartments, home, house, houses, homes
- community servicesparks, family services, libraries, family support, schools
- recoveryrecovery, sobriety, rehab, recover, recovery room
- Social Programswelfare office, unemployment benefits, disability benefits, TANF, family allowances
- social servicessocial workers, social work, social services, welfare office, case workers
- temporarytemporary, temp job, interim, temp worker, provisional
transitional housingemergency shelter
Temporary housing during disasters
emergency housing · emergency accommodation · overnight shelter · warming center · homeless shelter