Project
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Collaboration with The Salvation Army.
Housing First (HF) is an approach to ending homelessness that focuses on providing immediate, permanent, low-barrier, non-abstinence-based supportive housing for individuals with the lived experience of homelessness.This study explored the experiences and views of those providing and receiving Housing First tenancies. It focused on a scattered HF programme in central Scotland. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven HF staff members and 11 clients in a third sector service in Scotland. A paper describing the findings has been published:
Total award value ?1,000.00
Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences
Article
Miler JA, Foster R, Hnizdilova K, Murdoch H & Parkes T (2022) 'It maybe doesn't seem much, but to me it's my kingdom': staff and client experiences of Housing First in Scotland. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 29 (3), pp. 231-244. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2021.1926429