A central principle underlying government policy is to help people maintain their independence in their own homes for as long as possible. In particular, there has been a long-standing policy to reduce admissions to care homes. Extra care housing is a development of sheltered housing that aims to meet the housing, care and support needs of older people, while helping them to maintain their inde...

The literature on homeless adults with severe mental illness is generally silent on a critical issue surrounding service delivery—the contrast between housing first and treatment first program philosophies. This study draws on data from a longitudinal experiment contrasting a housing first program (which offers immediate permanent housing without requiring treatment compliance or abstinence) an...

The main objective of this paper is to propose an improvement to existing methods of house price index construction by addressing three important oversights in the literature. Firstly, it is plausible that the shadow prices of property attributes evolve slowly over time, in line with the nature of consumer preferences. Existing methods either assume (explicitly or implicitly) that shadow prices...

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OBJECTIVE This study was undertaken to examine the role of gender as it relates to access to housing among individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) in Canada. DESIGN An exploratory, qualitative approach was used to assess the perspectives of Canadian housing experts. The focus of inquiry was on the role of gender and associated intersections (eg, ethnicity) in pathways to housing access a...

OBJECTIVES Socioeconomic status (SES) is a well-established risk factor for many health outcomes. Recently, we developed an SES measure based on 4 housing-related characteristics (termed HOUSES) and demonstrated its ability to assess health disparities. In this study, we aimed to evaluate whether fewer housing-related characteristics could be used to provide a similar representation of SES. S...

BACKGROUND 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 widely diffused across the United States since 2000 as a result of positive findings related to consumer outcomes. However, a lack of cl...

To make effective decisions, consumers, executives and policymakers must make predictions. However, most data sources, whether from the government or businesses, are available only after a substantial lag, at a high level of aggregation, and for a small set of variables that were defined in advance. This hampers real-time prediction. A critical advance in IT research has been the development of...

The lack for accessible housing in Australia has contributed to the marginalisation and exclusion of people with disability, older people and their families (Saugeres, 2010). It has also resulted in significant cost to the community, through an over-reliance on support services and specialist accommodation, and responses to avoidable home-based injuries (Ozanne-Smith, Guy, Kelly & Clapperton, 2...