The Veterans Emergency Housing Program

Public Housing: The Experimental Housing Allowance Program

Perceptions of homelessness in older homeless veterans, VA homeless program staff liaisons, and housing intervention providers.

PURPOSE To understand the needs and challenges encountered by older homeless veterans. METHODS We conducted six focus groups of older veterans, two focus groups, and one semi-structured interview of VA staff liaisons, and two focus groups and one semi-structured interview of housing intervention providers. RESULTS Major themes for older veterans: 1) negative homelessness experience; 2) bene...

Requiring sobriety at program entry: impact on outcomes in supported transitional housing for homeless veterans.

OBJECTIVE An important distinction in models of housing for the homeless is whether programs that require abstinence prior to program admission produce better outcomes than unrestricted programs. Data from a large transitional housing program were used to compare client characteristics of and outcomes from programs requiring abstinence at admission and programs not requiring abstinence. METHO...

Use of group treatment among case managers in Department of Veterans Affairs supported housing program.

Because the predominant supported housing model includes individual intensive community-based case management, use of group treatments in supported housing has not been adequately studied. This study examined practices and attitudes about groups among case managers in the Department of Housing and Urban Development-Department of Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) program. We examine...

Factors related to rapidity of housing placement in Housing and Urban Development-Department of Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing program of 1990s.

The Housing and Urban Development-Department of Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) program is the largest supported housing program in the country for homeless veterans who are seeking rapid entry into permanent independent housing. This study examined factors related to how rapidly clients were housed in the early years of the program and how long they stayed in the program. Mental...