Most donors provided funds for transitional housing but very little money for clearing rubble or repairing houses.

In some jurisdictions, these programs take place in homeless shelters, not transitional housing.

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

The number of people in relief camps of tents and tarps since the quake was 1.6 million, and almost no transitional housing had been built.

Once they have completed the transitional housing program, they are assisted in moving into permanent housing.