OBJECTIVES Deinstitutionalization of long-term psychiatric patients produced various community-based residential care facilities. However, inner-city areas have many patients with severe mental illness (SMI) as well as deprivation, unemployment, and crime. This makes meeting their community needs complex. We undertook a needs assessment of service provision and consonance between service users'...

In an earlier paper, Goodman and Thibodeau [Journal of Housing Economics 7 (1998) 121] examined housing market segmentation within metropolitan Dallas using hierarchical models (Hierarchical Linear Models: Applications and Data Analysis Methods, Sage, Newbury Park, 1992) and single-family property transactions over the 1995:1 – 1997:1 periods. Their preliminary results suggested that hierarchic...

the housing sector can be considered both the exchange of intermediate goods and the investment goods for the manufacturing sectors. the housing sector is the buyer of intermediate goods such as brick, cement, iron etc from one side, and uses the investment goods such as crane etc from other side. furthermore, it uses the labour force. thus, the housing sector has three types of buying which in...

Housing can be considered as one of the most important needs of each family and the provision ofsuitable housing for people has always been considered as one of the indicators of progress in any country. Because ofthe specific attitude to the issue of housing in Iran, in other words, turning it into an investment, the major part of thehouseholds' income has been accounted for housing. Given the...

OBJECTIVE This paper is a methodological case study that describes the At Home/Chez Soi (Housing First) Initiative's mixed-methods strategy for implementation evaluation and discusses the value of these methods in evaluating the implementation of such complex population health interventions. TARGET POPULATION The Housing First (HF) model is being implemented in five cities: Vancouver, Winnipe...