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Housing: Supportive Housing
Supportive housing is broadly described as any housing options that fill the wide gap between independent living in the community and dependent living in an institutional setting. It is permanent (no limit or length of stay) affordable housing, in any housing configuration (high-rise, single, low-rise, etc.), with some form of care component that is designed to help people maintain their housing. It includes a cost-effective combination of affordable housing and services that help people live more stable, productive lives.

Supportive housing works well for people who face the complex challenges such as poverty and chronic health and social conditions. Poverty prevents people from obtaining or maintaining housing that is appropriate and stable. Individuals and families with chronic health and social conditions such as mental illness, HIV/AIDS, substance use issues, and histories of domestic violence, trauma, and/or out of home placements (prison, hospitals, fos...ter care, etc.) are often episodically disabled and require stable housing that is tightly linked to services.

People who live in supportive housing sign leases and pay rent, just like their neighbors. Supportive housing is a proven, cost-effective way to end homelessness for people who face the most complex challenges. It provides homeless people with a way out of high-cost crisis care and emergency housing and gets them back into their own homes and communities. In this way, supportive housing not only improves the lives of its residents but also generates significant public savings.

In Canada, there are many models of supportive housing to meet the many combinations of unique geographic, physical/design, social, economic, and support needs and characteristics. Often, supportive housing is geared toward seniors and provides 24 hour supervision and emergency response, meal services, housekeeping, transportation and social and recreational activities.

AUTHOR: Power, Asetha (2008) Homeless Hub. [Show More][Show Less]


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A Canadian Homelessness Research Network (CHRN) initiative. The CHRN has received financial support from the Government of Canada’s Homelessness Partnering Strategy and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada