Taking Different Ways Home: the Intersection of Mental Illness, Homelessness and Housing in New York City
Description:
This dissertation takes an in-depth look at homelessness and community-based housing for the mentally ill in the decades following the shift from hospital to community-based care, and culminates with three empirical analyses of a housing intervention for homeless mentally ill people. A review of how mental illness became one of the primary problems associated with homelessness centers on the tension between defining this relationship in economic or clinical terms. Homelessness hereby becomes instrumental in bringing about a broader conceptualization of community integration for the mentally ill, and sets the stage for housing to become the battleground for how to most effectively realize this community integration. Insights on the effectiveness of housing in alleviating homelessness, and on the outcomes associated with particular housing approaches, are gained by tracking mentally ill homeless people who were placed in "New York - New York" (NY/NY) housing, a large housing intervention in New York City, and (for one analysis) a matched group of mentally ill homeless controls.(abstract from the document)
Type of Resource:
Book
Publication Date:
2002
Location:
Philadelphia