Helping the Homeless | Our Interim Housing Model

What Is Interim Supportive Housing?

A Fast, Dignified Way to Bring People Indoors

Interim supportive housing provides people experiencing homelessness with a private room, stability, and connection to on-site services. It’s a humane, scalable solution that’s helping cities act quickly to address street homelessness and deliver better outcomes.

The DignityMoves Difference

We turn challenges in housing supply into opportunities for innovation. Our interim supportive housing model uses temporarily vacant land, relocatable housing units, and emergency building codes to build interim housing fast and cost-effectively. The result is safe, stable, high-quality housing that gets people off the street and connects them with health and social services.

Land is expensive, so we borrow it

Building codes are onerous, so we build for emergencies

Construction costs are high, so we use innovative, state-of-the-art modular and prefabricated solutions

Zoning is restrictive, so our units are relocatable

NIMBY resistance is fierce, but we harness it

Residents want security and autonomy, so everyone gets their own room with a door that locks

Government budgets are limited, so we mobilize philanthropy and private capital

The scale is daunting: We make the impossible possible

Design & Constructon Supportive Services

Partnering with Cities to Develop and Scale Interim Housing

Delivering a new interim housing community from concept to grand opening requires speed, coordination, and deep expertise. DignityMoves brings all three.

We work side-by-side with cities to navigate every phase of development, drawing on our national network of experts in modular design, engineering, construction, and public-private financing. Our role is to simplify the process, accelerate timelines, and remove roadblocks so cities can bring people indoors faster.

Bring Interim Housing to your Community

Why Interim Housing Works

Interim supportive housing fills a critical gap in the housing continuum—bringing people indoors quickly and setting them on a path to long-term success.

Saves public funds and reduces pressure on emergency services

Reduces encampments and reclaims public spaces

Supports permanent housing placement and long-term independence

Cost-effective and scalable

Prevents chronic homelessness

Building Better Outcomes: DignityMoves’ Impact

80 %

of residents report improved physical and mental well-being

60 %+

transition into permanent housing

6 - 12

months.
Average stay

911

Fewer calls, hospital visits, and encampments

From our Residents

“I love the name because [DignityMoves] gave me my dignity back. I felt like I could breathe. I could have a good night’s sleep. I’m a therapist. I’m working now [at the FARO Center] with homeless people to help them get out of their situation.”

“When you’re here, and you’re showered and you’re eating three meals a day, and you know you have some dignity, you can look at yourself in the mirror and not get upset.”