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Single-site Supportive Housing: Tenant Perspectives

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  • Cameron Parsell
  • Maree Petersen
  • Ornella Moutou

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We examined tenants' experiences and perception living in a single-site supportive housing. Recent evidence demonstrates the effectiveness of secure housing with linked voluntary support services as a successful in enabling people with high vulnerabilities to exit homelessness and sustain housing. Scholars and policy-makers continue to debate the merits of scattered site housing with person centred support, on the one hand, and single-site supportive housing with onsite support, on the other. The manuscript is based on survey and qualitative data with 120 tenants in a single-site supportive housing: ( n = 60) formerly homeless and ( n = 60) allocated housing because of low to moderate income. The results show that tenant experience single-site supportive housing as home; for many single-site supportive housing constitutes community. Conversely, some design and security features of single-site supportive housing undermined tenants autonomy and feeling of home. Moreover, close contact with other tenants meant that single-site supportive housing was also anti-community.

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  • Cameron Parsell & Maree Petersen & Ornella Moutou, 2015. "Single-site Supportive Housing: Tenant Perspectives," Housing Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(8), pages 1189-1209, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:chosxx:v:30:y:2015:i:8:p:1189-1209
    DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1009874
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    1. Cameron Parsell, 2016. "Surveillance in supportive housing: Intrusion or autonomy?," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 53(15), pages 3189-3205, November.
    2. Manson, Daniel & Fast, Danya, 2023. "“They are always focusing on the person who is doing the worst”: Exploring how crisis shapes young people's pathways in and out of supportive housing in Vancouver, Canada," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 331(C).
    3. Kimberly A. Rollings & Christina S. Bollo, 2021. "Permanent Supportive Housing Design Characteristics Associated with the Mental Health of Formerly Homeless Adults in the U.S. and Canada: An Integrative Review," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(18), pages 1-37, September.

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