Westhab’s goal is to provide homeless single adults and families safe, decent, temporary housing that includes all the supportive services necessary to enable them to find permanent affordable housing and, ultimately, achieve self-sufficiency.

Since the causes of homelessness vary, Westhab provides a "hierarchy" of transitional housing facilities, to provide appropriate measures of security and service to meet each homeless family or individual's needs.

Westhab manages 394 homeless housing units in Westchester County. These include a family homeless shelters; a single adult shelter; single-room-occupancy housing; special needs facilities; owned and managed facilities; and scattered site housing.