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Understanding Low-Income Hispanic Housing Challenges and the Use of Housing and Homelessness Assistance

Many Hispanic households in the United States face poor housing conditions, high rent burdens, overcrowding, and—in some communities—high rates of homelessness. At the same time, awareness is growing that Hispanics are often underrepresented in…

Tags: case study-- emergency shelter-- latina/e/o-- open access-- Philadelphia PA-- racial disparities-- scholarly-- shelter utilization

The Ambiguities, Limits and Risks of Housing First from a European Perspective

There is strong evidence that the Pathways Housing First model can move homeless people with sustained experiences of living rough, with problematic drug and alcohol use, and with severe mental illness straight into ordinary housing, and successfully…

Tags: housing first-- model fidelity-- open access-- pathways to housing-- scholarly

Can Housing First Work for Youth?

Housing First has emerged as an effective and humane approach to addressing homelessness. In spite of the strength of the evidence, questions remain regarding the applicability of Housing First to sub-populations, including youth. The proposed…

Tags: housing first-- model fidelity-- open access-- scholarly-- youth

Permanent Supportive Housing With Housing First to Reduce Homelessness and Promote Health Among Homeless Populations With Disability: A Community Guide Systematic Review

Objectives: A standard approach to treating homeless persons with a disability is called Treatment First, requiring clients be “housing ready”—that is, in psychiatric treatment and substance-free—before and while receiving permanent housing. A more…

Tags: disability-- health-- HIV/AIDS-- housing first-- mental illness-- open access-- PSH-- review-- scholarly-- substance use disorder

Housing First, Consumer Choice, and Harm Reduction for Homeless Individuals With a Dual Diagnosis

Objectives. We examined the longitudinal effects of a Housing First program for homeless, mentally ill individuals’ on those individuals’ consumer choice, housing stability, substance use, treatment utilization, and psychiatric symptoms. Methods. Two…

Tags: housing first-- open access-- pathways to housing-- PSH-- randomized control trial-- scholarly-- supportive housing

Food, shelter, hope: Examining the possibilities of agricultural tiny home communities for the homeless

This article discusses the unique but often concurrent issues of homelessness and food insecurity in America and considers how agricultural tiny home communities could be developed to address these problems. Examples of existing tiny home communities…

Tags: open access-- scholarly-- tiny house-- village shelter

Moving from rhetoric to reality: adapting Housing First for homeless individuals with mental illness from ethno-racial groups

Background: The literature on interventions addressing the intersection of homelessness, mental illness and race is scant. The At Home/Chez Soi research demonstration project is a pragmatic field trial investigating a Housing First intervention for…

Tags: at home/chez soi-- culturally specific care-- housing first-- open access-- PSH-- racial equity-- scholarly

‘No brokers to move out of here’: A mixed method analysis of the impact of homelessness policy and shelter governance on families residing in NYC shelters

Homelessness in the United States has been increasing at an exponential rate over the past three decades, and the US has not experienced the current level of homelessness since the Great Depression of the 1930’s. With this rise in homelessness has…

Tags: emergency shelter-- family homelessness-- New York City NY-- open access-- policy-- scholarly-- shelter governance

Combatting homelessness in Canada: Applying lessons learned from six tiny villages to the Edmonton Bridge Healing Program

Emerging evidence shows that homelessness continues to be a chronic public health problem throughout Canada. The Bridge Healing Program has been proposed in Edmonton, Alberta, as a novel approach to combat homelessness by using hospital emergency…

Tags: Canada-- healthcare-- open access-- scholarly-- tiny house-- transitional housing-- village shelter

Racial discrimination in the life course of older adults experiencing homelessness: results from the HOPE HOME study

Over 2.5 million people experience homelessness yearly in the United States. Black persons are overrepresented by three-fold among those experiencing homelessness but little research has examined the relationship between race and homelessness. We…

Tags: Oakland CA-- older adults-- open access-- racial disparities-- scholarly-- structural disparities

Racial Inequity and Homelessness: Findings from the SPARC Study

This study examines racial inequities and homelessness in the United States through mixed methods research in eight communities. We compare the race and ethnicity of those experiencing homelessness to the general population and to people in poverty,…

Tags: mixed methods-- open access-- racial disparities-- scholarly-- SPARC

Housing Matters, Services Might: Findings from the High Needs Families Program Evaluation

Permanent supportive housing for families experiencing homelessness—typically, subsidized housing that is not time limited and provides access to a range of support services—has substantially increased over the past 10 years, despite an absence of…

Tags: children-- family homelessness-- open access-- PSH-- scholarly-- supportive housing

Housing First and Single-Site Housing

In 2002, the United States embraced the Housing First approach, which led to the widespread adoption of this approach in cities across the nation. This resulted in programmatic variations of Housing First and calls for clarity about the Housing First…

Tags: housing first-- model fidelity-- open access-- qualitative-- scattered-site-- scholarly-- single-site

A Randomized Trial Examining Housing First in Congregate and Scattered Site Formats

Objective: No previous experimental trials have investigated Housing First (HF) in both scattered site (SHF) and congregate (CHF) formats. We hypothesized that CHF and SHF would be associated with a greater percentage of time stably housed as well as…

Tags: housing first-- open access-- randomized control trial-- scattered-site-- scholarly-- single-site

The housing first model (HFM) fidelity index: designing and testing a tool for measuring integrity of housing programs that serve active substance users

The Housing First Model (HFM) is an approach to serving formerly homeless individuals with dually diagnosed mental health and substance use disorders regardless of their choice to use substances or engage in other risky behaviors. The model has been…

Tags: housing first-- implementation-- model fidelity-- open access-- pathways to housing-- scholarly

Exploring tiny homes as an affordable housing strategy to ameliorate homelessness: A Case Study of the Dwellings in Tallahassee, FL

An emerging strategy to combat homelessness is the development of “tiny homes”. However, the advent of tiny homes as a new form of housing intervention raises a number of questions about their intentions, efficacy, and policy feasibility. This paper…

Tags: case study-- open access-- planning-- scholarly-- Tallahassee FL-- tiny house-- village shelter

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