Nearly all homeless families seeking transitional housing have children who are 5 years old or older.

The new company is necessary, he said, to make it possible for people in transitional housing to have a home "to transition into."

After 28 months I was sent to transitional housing to begin the process of rejoining society.

They were used as transitional housing for the city's large homeless population.

They provide counseling, job training, case management, transitional housing, and emergency services.

In a single year, the department says, 16,000 families come into transitional housing temporarily, sometimes on more than one occasion.

With $2 million from the federal government, the city is building 90 units of transitional housing that should be ready by October.

Those with no homes to return to face a severe shortage of transitional housing.

It has become a national model for such transitional housing.

But he said the transitional housing "only works if you have something permanent to move into."