<i>Housing First</i>: Considering Components for Successful Resettlement of Homeless People with Multiple Needs

Nicholls, Carol McNaughton; Atherton, Iain

doi:10.1080/02673037.2011.581907

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“…Responding to this rapid uptake, there is a steadily growing body of applied research investigating the efficacy, efficiency and fidelity of housing first models in different local, regional and national contexts (see Atherton & McNaughton Nicholls ; Tsai et al ; Goering et al ; McNaughton Nicholls & Atherton ; Pleace ; Busch‐Geertsema ; Johnsen ; Johnson et al ; Greenwood et al ). As central contributors to previous rounds of debate on homeless governance, one might expect critical geographers to be exploring housing first models and programs with some urgency.…”

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‘Housing First’ and the Changing Terrains of Homeless Governance

Baker

Evans

2016

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Over the last fifteen years, programs based on ‘housing first’ models have swept to prominence as solutions to homelessness. Such programs serve a small subset of the overall homeless population, namely the ‘chronically’ homeless, offering direct access to permanent housing with comprehensive and flexible support services attached. Hailed as socially progressive responses to homelessness—based on their opposition to traditional emphases on client passivity, sobriety and moralised deservingness—the popularity of housing first models has often depended on congruence with wider projects of welfare retrenchment and fiscal austerity. Despite the rapid globalisation and high public profile of housing first ideas, they have been largely overlooked in geographical accounts of homeless governance. In response, this article discusses the growing importance and influence of housing first ideas, before looking to contemporary debates on homeless governance for interpretive insights. Informed by these debates, we sketch conceptual areas to which future research on housing first models and programs might attend: first, to their ambivalent politics and, second, to the processes and practices of translation that are central to their implementation and political consequence. Moving beyond questions of operational efficacy, efficiency and fidelity, we call for critical but constructive accounts focused on the constitutive relations between housing first ideas and governance transformations at and across a range of scales and sites.

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‘Housing First’ and the Changing Terrains of Homeless Governance

Baker

Evans

2016

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“…Other criticisms that may be levelled at the HF approach range from a lack of structured scientific evidence on the results (Groton, 2013;McNaughton et al, 2011) to the wisdom of the cost-saving philosophy (Löfstrand & Juhila, 2012) (see also Baker & Evans (2016) for an overall critique on the lines of that developed in this paper). These criticisms are relegated to the sidelines by the legitimacy that HF has acquired, precisely because that legitimacyand not the approach in itselfis the real driving force behind HF's worldwide expansion.…”

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“…This paper sets out to provide a resonated overview of the challenges associated with the widespread implementation of the Housing First (HF) policy in a number of Western contexts. Given that recent scholarship published in this journal has granted us a fine understanding of HF's functioning in the US (McNaughton et al, 2011) and of its scientific basis and results (Woodhall-Melnik & Dunn, 2015), this paper expands knowledge on this particular policy in two ways. First, our contribution analyses why and how HF has become an international success in the West and what issues this success brings to the fore.…”

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Passive adaptation or active engagement? The challenges of Housing First internationally and in the Italian case

2017

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In recent years a peculiar homelessness' policy that goes under the name of 'Housing First' has become increasingly popular all over the world. Epitomising a quintessential case of policy-mobility, Housing First can today be considered an heterogeneous assemblage of experiences and approaches that sometimes have little in common with each other. Introducing and commenting upon this heterogeneity, the paper critically analyses why and how Housing First has become a planetary success and what are the issues at stake with its widespread implementation. If recent scholarship published in this journal has granted us a fine understanding of Housing First's functioning in the US, this paper offers something currently absent from the debate: a nuanced and critical understanding of the ambiguities related to the international success of this policy, with specific references to the challenges associated to its translation in the Italian case.

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“…The Housing First literature provides little guidance on the management of such risks (Pleace, 2008), but does note that tenants may be moved into alternative accommodation on multiple occasions if necessary, and that friction with neighbours can sometimes be addressed via mediation (Tsemberis, 2010b;McNaughton-Nicholls & Atherton, 2011).…”

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‘Doing it Already?’: Stakeholder Perceptions of Housing First in the UK

Johnsen

Teixeira²

2012

International Journal of Housing Policy

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When first developed in the United States, 'Housing First' was highly controversial given its departure from mainstream 'linear' service models for homeless people with complex support needs. It has nevertheless since been heralded as presenting a key 'antidote' to chronic homelessness and is being replicated across North America and Europe with what might be regarded as 'evangelical' fervour. Reception to Housing First has been noticeably more reserved in the UK to date. This paper explores the reasons underpinning many UK stakeholders' scepticism about the model. It argues that this derives, in part, from the fact that Housing First implementation in the UK would not represent the scale of paradigm shift that it has elsewhere, thus the model is considered far less revolutionary. Furthermore, whilst most stakeholders find aspects of the approach very attractive, ideological and pragmatic reservations dictate that robust evidence derived from pilot projects in Britain will be requiredespecially as regards outcomes for individuals with active substance misuse problems -before any wholesale 'conversion' to Housing First is likely in the UK.

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Housing First: Considering Components for Successful Resettlement of Homeless People with Multiple Needs

Abstract: 'Housing First' programmes

Cited by 19 publications

References 23 publications

‘Housing First’ and the Changing Terrains of Homeless Governance

‘Housing First’ and the Changing Terrains of Homeless Governance

Passive adaptation or active engagement? The challenges of Housing First internationally and in the Italian case

‘Doing it Already?’: Stakeholder Perceptions of Housing First in the UK

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