Transitional Housing Program

NETS practices a strict self-ID only policy. Staff are trained to understand, respect, and support a wide range of gender and sexual identities and all members are expected to follow a Code of Conduct of respect and inclusion. The THP is a safe, inclusive home where you can be yourself. 

Our Transitional Housing Program is geared toward long-term stays, requires a multi-step interview process, and has limited availability. If you are in need of emergency shelter, we usually recommend the Pine Street Inn in Boston, whose homeless services are trans and gender-diverse friendly.

THP members will be expected to work with NETS staff to create a Personal Development Plan (PDP). A PDP is an individualized plan to address the specific barriers between you and your long-term financial, housing, health, or transition goals. Members are also expected to maintain a certain level of cleanliness in the shared space to ensure the health and safety of all our members.

While we do have 24/7 emergency services available, NETS is unable to provide full-time care in-house to potential members with physical or mental disabilities. 

Housing Insecurity can look like a lot of things: couch-surfing with family and friends, living in your car, bouncing between shelters and sleeping rough; leaving an unsafe housing situation, fleeing a politically unsafe area, or just not knowing where your next rent check is coming from- or if it's coming at all. The THP provides an opportunity to build savings and work towards career, financial, health and transition goals, safe from the stresses houselessness imparts.

Program members should expect and understand that they will be sharing a home with individuals from a variety of backgrounds, and that to remain in the THP they will have to agree to and abide by our Code of Conduct, which is there to ensure a safe and clean environment to all of our members for the duration of their stay.

NETS understand that being forced to leave a beloved pet behind can be one of the most dehumanizing aspects of houselessness. Furthermore, a the love of a pet can be hugely beneficial to an person's mental and physical health. Although the THP does not financially support pets, we do have a Pets Allowed and a Pet Free floor.

NETS understands and sympathizes with the massive institutional burdens faced by formerly incarcerated individuals. However, the THP is not a reentry program, and does not have the capacity to support those individuals at this time.