Moving Towards Home: Strategies for Ending Homelessness in Ten Years
City of Burlington, Vermont
February 2004

People are homeless because personal behaviors, bad credit or poor landlord references interfere with their ability to obtain and retain housing.

Money to pay rent is not the whole solution. The PATH Back Rent program can actually be a disincentive for people to deal with the troubling behavior that lies at the root of their problem. The Rental Opportunity Center has found that it can be hard to help tenants facing evictions because they know that PATH will step in and save the day.

Sometimes it may be necessary to provide transitional housing to enable people to develop a stable housing history to facilitate a return to permanent housing.

Page last updated March 5, 2004