Range Of Housing Options Research Articles

What place is there for shared housing with individualized disability support?

Background Individualized funding of disability support services has implications for people’s choices about when to share their home. This paper examines how people with disabilities made choices about who to live with and the factors influencing these choices. Methods This paper discusses data from interviews with 30 people with mostly intellectual disabilities using individualized support services, 21 interviews with family members, four interviews with service managers, and a focus group with five support workers. The data come from a large evaluation of individualized housing support programs in New South Wales, Australia. Results Only some people had the opportunity to choose whether to share and with whom. Their choices were constrained by the range of housing options and their limited experience of them, even when they had support to make choices about shared housing or living alone. In some cases, the choices reflected a conceptualization of people with disabilities as different to other citizens in their rights and expectations about their social arrangements. Conclusion The results have implications for information sharing, housing stock, and the need to challenge the positioning of people with disabilities relative to other people regarding choices about where and with whom to live. Implications for rehabilitation Many people preferred not to live alone, so as to improve their economic and social circumstances, and their choice and control. The choices about shared housing that many people and their supporters made were constrained by their limited experience of housing options or their familiarity with the range of choices made by other people with disabilities. Being able to draw on the material, social, and information resources of family made a big difference to their housing choices. It raises questions for policy implementation about whether individualized support may lock some people into shared housing arrangements by failing to include housing costs in the individual package.

Torre residencial en Köniz. Suiza

<p>Se prevé una amplia gama de opciones de vivienda para el solar de Bächtelen el cual, con el fin de adaptarse a la heterogeneidad existente de los alrededores, no se plantea como un desarrollo a gran escala o de tipología de vivienda homogénea. Sobre la base de un análisis de mercado, se definieron cinco temas diferentes: vivir con vistas, vivir en un patio, vivir con árboles, vivir en el exterior y vivir en el balcón. Se dividió el área en cinco zonas de construcción y se asignó a cada zona unas reglas específicas que reflejan el tema, base sobre la cual se pretende que los diferentes tipos de edificio entren en diálogo con el entorno.</p>

Living arrangements and level of care among clients discharged from a scattered-site housing-based independent living program

There is little recent research in the field of adolescent independent living that looks at the specific living arrangements of youth, who at the point of discharge from the child welfare system, had experienced living independently and had access to a choice of housing options. Administrative data and reviews of client records were used in this study to look at the choice of housing option and the change in level of care of 367 young adults who emancipated from the Lighthouse Youth Services Independent Living Program in Cincinnati, Ohio, during the five-year period 2001–2006. Given a range of housing options at the time of discharge, over half (55%) chose an independent living arrangement, including 41% who lived in their own place, either alone (28%) or with a roommate (13%). Only 21% decided to live in someone else's home, including just 7% with one or both birth parents, 10% with some other relative, and 4% with a non-relative. The remaining 24% of youth were discharged from independent living to a more restrictive living arrangement (a.k.a., higher “level of care”, including a residential treatment program, group home, foster care, or supervised independent living program) (11%) or whose whereabouts were unknown (13%). The outcomes of this study suggest that, when presented with a choice of housing options, most of this county's emancipating foster youth would prefer to live on their own, rather than to return to live with their families of origin. The study also suggests that many youth who participate in a scattered-site housing-based independent living program can succeed in leaving care with affordable housing in place and avoid immediate homelessness.

Planning for an Ageing Population in Rural England: The Place of Housing Design

A key aspect of planning for the future housing supply in rural areas of England is the demographic context of an ageing society. Older people have a very diverse range of aspirations and needs in relation to their housing and wider sense of well-being. Planning is part of a wider policy response to facilitate a range of housing options for older people, including age-specific housing and in the mainstream housing stock. A key factor in responding to future aspirations and needs is the design of new housing. The government has signalled its intention to move towards the application of lifetime homes standards to all new housing in the future, firstly by encouraging take up of these design standards in the private sector, but with the option to review progress and the possible need for regulation in 2013. This very positive policy development would help to enable older people to exercise greater choice and control over their circumstances. However, a consideration of the prospects for increasing the supply of housing with higher design standards in small rural communities suggests a very slow pace of change in the housing stock. In addition, therefore, there needs to be a more immediate focus on other policies to address the challenges facing an ageing society in the countryside.

Safety and Security in Small-Scale Recovery Housing for People With Severe Mental Illness: An Inner-City Case Study

Safety and Security in Small-Scale Recovery Housing for People With Severe Mental Illness: An Inner-City Case Study

Housing Preferences of Homeless Veterans With Dual Diagnoses

Previous research indicates that most homeless persons with mental illness prefer independent living, while most clinicians recommend group housing. This study compared residential preferences of 141 homeless veterans with dual diagnoses with those of 62 homeless nonveterans with dual diagnoses. Clinicians rated both groups while they were in transitional shelters before they were placed in housing. Both samples strongly rejected group home living, but a majority of nonveterans desired staff support. Clinicians recommended staffed group homes for most veterans and nonveterans. This survey underscores the disjuncture between consumers' and clinicians' preferences as well as the need to provide a range of housing options to accommodate varied preferences.

Senior Housing

Increasing numbers of older adults in our society have created a demand for a range of housing options. This study was conducted to better understand the relationship between the type of housing in which older adults lived and their utilization of formal services. A modified version of the Andersen-Newman model (1973) was used to organize the independent variables with type of housing listed as a separate category for the purposes of regression analysis.People living in senior housing (age segregated) were older, poorer, more functionally impaired, more likely to have Medicaid health insurance, and more likely to use formal in-home services than those seniors living in age integrated housing. In both groups, level of need was the strongest predictor of formal service use. However, even with all the need, enabling, and predisposing variables controlled, housing type made an independent contribution in explaining patterns of service utilization.

Women, Men, and Residential Patterns in Early Modern Venice

This article examines the residential patterns of early modern Venetians by using a collection of parish censuses from the end of the sixteenth century. Their analysis reveals much about Venetian families and the networks forged among individuals, especially women, in this period. There was no one residential pattern for early modern Venetians; rather, women and men might choose from a range of housing options, with marital status the most important factor in that choice. Above all, this article demonstrates that the residential patterns of Venetians were more varied than the traditional model for premodern households in southern Europe implies. In some ways, Venice resembles more closely the model for northern Europe, which suggests that current assumptions about premodern households require some revision.

Housing Solutions

Key features of a comprehensive housing program serving formerly homeless and at-risk adults with serious and persistent mental illness are described. The program combines intensive case management, integrated dual-diagnosis treatment, and other clinical services with a range of housing options which are operated under the auspices of a single agency. For individuals with co-occurring substance use disorder, housing responses are guided by a four stage model of treatment and recovery. The authors offer a rationale for the continuum approach's relevance for high risk populations, especially those in poor, urban settings where safety and harm-reduction are a high priority. A controlled study comparing the continuum housing approach to another leading model is underway. Primary outcomes of interest are engagement in services, establishing and maintaining high quality housing, and avoiding returns to literal homelessness.

Chapter 2. Housing and Household Movement in Later Life

ABSTRACT In most developed countries housing policies are focusing on enabling elderly and very elderly people to remain in their own homes. Attention is also turning to people in the Third Age to see how their housing needs to be different from earlier stages of their lives but also as a preparation for old age. This paper presents evidence from the United Kingdom (UK) about choices and policies at different stages of middle and old age and on the developing range of housing options to meet these needs.

Caring for Older People: Homes and Housing for Elderly People

Most elderly people in Britain live independently in their own homes. Moving to alternative accommodation may be necessary for some people but requires careful consideration. A multidisciplinary assessment should be performed when a person plans to move into residential care; this should include the input of a doctor trained in geriatric medicine. A range of housing options is open to elderly people and these options are discussed here.

Housing policy, subletting and the urban poor

There is evidence to suggest that subletting, as in other Third World cities, is playing a vitally important role in South African cities in accommodating people with low and unpredictable incomes. While it does not always offer an entirely acceptable form of accommodation when judged against the standards set by South Africa's housing goals, subletting can none the less provide particular advantages for poorer people. Given that acute housing problems will undoubtedly persist in South African cities for the foreseeable future, it can be assumed with some confidence that the important role of subletting is set to continue. Subletting, therefore, clearly demands recognition in policy terms. However, the danger now appears to exist that subletting, as was the case with the śinformal sector’ of the economy, will be seized on by governments as offering a privatised solution to the particularly thorny problem of assistance for the urban poor. This certainly seems to be the approach of some currently dominant positions on housing policy. This paper puts forward a somewhat different policy position. Subletting must be formally recognised within a national housing policy as one of a range of housing options for the urban poor. As such, state intervention is required in order to contain particular negative aspects but primarily in order to facilitate the operation of subletting as a functional and flexible form of accommodation.

The chronic mental patient: the position of th Canadian Psychiatric Association.

The Canadian Psychiatric Association recommends: 1. In this International Year of Disabled Persons, that the needs of the chronic neural patient be publicized with emphasis on the potential for improvement if these needs are adequately met. A working definition of the chronic mental patient refers to those members of society who suffer from a chronic mental illness and who demonstrate significant impairment of task performance and/or social performance. 2. A comprehensive network of services should be developed including provision for basic need with a range of housing options, inpatient and outpatient psychiatric evaluations and treatment, personal clinical support, living-skills training and vocational assessment and training. Aside from patient needs, the professional status of the caregivers involved is to be enhanced. Laudable efforts by self-help groups should be further encouraged. 3. Community resources should be enlisted following principles and practices identified as basic to successful programs already existing, for example: -- provision of economic stability -- presence of administrative leadership -- striving for continuity of care -- allowance for adequate manpower -- establishment of vocational supports -- respect for patients' rights -- provision of community education -- design of ongoing evaluation and research 4. A greater emphasis should be placed in undergraduate and postgraduate medical and psychiatric training programs on the treatment of the chronically ill. 5. The Canadian Council on Hospital Accreditation should continue to elaborate and publish criteria by which services to the chronically mentally ill would be evaluated both at the inpatient and outpatient levels. These criteria when available should be promoted in all relevant institutions.

Housing requirements and national resources: Implications of the U.N. world model

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses housing requirements and national resources. A major dimension of the quality of life in urban areas to which the world's population is increasingly gravitating is the housing environment. The urban areas of developing societies offer a range of housing options from spacious well-serviced homes accessible to a range of jobs and community services to inaccessible crowded slum dwellings. The conditions of housing vary widely among the developing countries. While the reasons are many and complex, the dominant factor governing the quality of housing is the income level of the populace. The United Nations World Model is a model of the world economy developed for the United Nations by a team headed by Professor Wassily Leontief to help member states assess the impacts of environmental issues and policies on international economic development.