Research indicates that the need for safe housing and the economic resources to maintain safe housing are two of the most pressing concerns among abused women who are planning to or have recently left abusers. Intimate partner violence (IPV) is frequently an immediate cause or precursor to homelessness and housing instability. The aim of the study is to explore abused women's experiences access...

Paper Five – BME Housing needs and aspirations Sanna Markkanen With Anna Clarke, Alex Fenton, Alan Holmans, Sarah Monk and Christine Whitehead Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research January 2008 This is the fifth of a suite of eight papers drawing on research carried out into demographic, spatial and economic impacts on future affordable housing demand. For full details on the metho...

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'...

BACKGROUND Housing First has become a popular treatment model for homeless adults with mental illness, yet little is known about program participants' early experiences or trajectories. This study used a mixed methods design to examine participant changes in selected domains 6 months after enrollment in a Canadian field trial of Housing First. METHODS The study sample included 301 participant...

lifestyle, shaped by the culture and customs of the people living in a city, and the settlement pattern resulted from that, is one of the foundations of native housing. careful analysis of lifestyle helps developing new housing design principles which are compatible to changes in living conditions and styles. city of khorramshahr, because of the deconstruction caused by war and the reconstructi...