Supportive housing combines subsidies with wraparound social services to help people stay off the streets. But demand far outstrips supply in Philadelphia.
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Integrating affordable housing with accessible health and social services is a proven, highly cost-effective way to tackle homelessness and vastly improve people’s lives.
To address chronic homelessness, the federal government needs to include funding for longer-term supportive housing in its National Housing Strategy.
The Aboriginal Coalition to End Homelessness opened British Columbia’s first culturally supportive housing on Vancouver island — a model that can be replicated across Canada.
Our health-care system is fraught with paternalistic attitudes toward the capabilities of people with disabilities. Capacity assessments raise important issues about consent, autonomy and agency.
Studies show that people’s environments influence their mood. The same is true of homeless shelters, which can either help or hurt residents’ psychological well-being — and, possibly, their futures.
About one in three homeless people has a significant mental illness. Providing housing for them has proved to be a boost not only to them and their communities, but also to budgets. Here’s why.
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Professor of Sociomedical Sciences (Psychiatry and Public Health), Columbia University
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Professor of Interior Design and Architecture, Florida State University
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PhD Candidate in Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor, The Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Western University
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Executive Director, Aboriginal Coalition to End Homelessness Society
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Equity Programming and Research Manager, Aboriginal Coalition to End Homelessness Society
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