My friend was living out of his car for a while until he was told about this "walk about" program. This was in suburban NY btw. It was a lenient program, just had a curfew (not too bad.) Walk about 1 was a more crowded house, and after a couple weeks of that he was in walk about 2, which was a pretty nice house with his own room. I think he got into 2 since he had a job, and he paid like 100 bucks a month (at the second house, not the 1st) which he got back at the end, and which he used to get his own place.