Transitional housing is a very useful resource for recovering individuals in Flint, Michigan who have completed a drug rehabilitation program but still require time to fully re-adjust to regular life and the real world. For an individual who has used drugs and alcohol to self medicate and particularly for long term addicts, the world can seem like a formidable place now that one has to get through life without the use of drugs or alcohol. Transitional housing in Flint offers a secure setting where those who are in this stage of the drug rehabilitation experience can slowly grow to be comfortable with the process of restoring their life without drugs and on their own. While in transitional housing recovering addicts can continue to receive individualized and group counseling as needed to help them along, and also to obtain steady employment and housing so that they have a strong chance at remaining abstinent and being to have a productive and happy life.