• Wherever possible, local Texas housing authorities should be directed to utilize federal housing assistance programs to assist formerly incarcerated people with finding housing, within the limits of federal law.  Federal Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) and HOME Investment Partnership grants to localities can provide avenues for funding to aid formerly incarcerated individuals when communities support such initiatives.

• Texas should create a pilot program with a family mentoring re-integration plan. This program could provide a small payment to qualified, caring families and individuals throughout Texas who want to house low-risk, low severity former offenders that are eligible for parole but who lack their own housing.  This will allow former offenders to experience the family support they may never have had prior to incarceration, and it will provide them transitional housing for up to 12 months while they have the chance to seek employment.  

Note:Eligibility to become a host should be contingent upon a clean criminal record.  Furthermore, families should be allowed prior review and approval of the individuals they take in.