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The Applicability of Housing First Models to Homelessness Persons with Serious Mental Illness
Author(s): Carol Pearson, Gretchen Locke, Ann Montgomery, Larry Buron
Organization: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Policy Development and Research (PDR)
Publication Date: 2007
This report presents the findings from an exploratory study of the Housing First approach of providing permanent supportive housing to single, homeless adults with mental illness and co-occurring substance-related disorders. In recent years, Congress and the leadership of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) have encouraged the development of permanent housing for homeless people. Concurrently, there has been a shift toward...
Community-Wide Strategies for Preventing Homelessness: Recent Evidence
Author(s): Martha R. Burt, Carol Pearson, Ann Montgomery
Publication Date: 2007
This article summarizes the findings of a study of community-wide strategies for preventing homelessness among families and single adults with serious mental illness, conducted for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. The study involved six communities, of which this article focuses on five. A major finding of this study was that it was difficult to identify sites with community-wide strategies, and even harder to find any that mai...
Assessing Homeless Population Size Through the Use of Emergency and Transitional Shelter Services in 1998: Results from the Analysis of Administrative Data from Nine U.S. Jurisdictions
Author(s): Stephen Metraux, Dennis Culhane, Stacy Raphael, Matthew White, Carol Pearson, Eric Hirsch, Patricia Ferrell, Steve Rice, Barbara Ritter, J. Steven Cleghorn
Publication Date: 2001
Objectives: This study reports findings from the first-ever systematic enumeration of homeless population size using data previously collected from administrative records of homeless services providers in nine US jurisdictions over a one year period. As such, it provides the basis for establishing an ongoing measure of the parameters of the homeless population and for tracking related trends on the use of homeless services over time. Methods: Ea...
Housing Stability among Homeless Individuals with Serious Mental Illness Participating in Housing First Programs
Author(s): Carol Pearson, Gretchen Locke, Ann Elizabeth Montgomery
Publication Date: 2009
This article presents findings from a study of three programs using the Housing First approach to provide permanent supportive housing for single adults who are homeless with serious mental illness and often co-occurring substance-related disorders.