Transitional Housing

Transitional Housing is the interim step between emergency shelter and market housing.

Most emergency shelters in the Baltimore area have a 90-day length of stay, but the residents at Baltimore Outreach Services stay in our emergency shelter until housing is available, as long as they are working toward their goals of housing and self-sufficiency. Our residents do not have enough income to participate in traditional market housing.

Once a resident has obtained employment and is ready to leave the shelter, the lack of available transitional housing becomes evident. Transitional housing is a two-year, intensive counseling and mentoring program that encourages growth to achieve goals of financial stability, mental health treatment and substance abuse recovery.

All residents must be employed to enter our transitional housing program. During their stay in transitional housing, residents resolve outstanding bills and reconcile poor credit issues while improving their job skills.

We currently operate five units of transitional housing. It is our goal to add five new units over the next five years to give more families a new beginning. We completely furnish our homes with furniture, linens and kitchen goods. The residents take these items with them when they leave transitional housing and move on to their permanent homes.