Accommodating Difference: Evaluating Supported Housing for Vulnerable People

Clapham, D. (2015) Accommodating Difference: Evaluating Supported Housing for Vulnerable People. Policy Press: Bristol. ISBN 9781447306344 (doi: 10.1332/policypress/9781447306344.001.0001)

Abstract

The book explores the objectives, philosophies and outcomes of supported housing for vulnerable people. The exploration is intended to further our understanding of an often-neglected topic in housing research and to stimulate further research in this area. But, the book is also intended to share what is known about supported housing in a way that helps the planning and running of supported housing in the future and so improves the well-being of vulnerable people. The focus of the book is on the impact that supported housing makes on the well-being of those who live in it and whether some forms of supported housing are better at doing this than others. An evaluation framework based on the concept of well-being and the affordances of home and neighbourhood is used to evaluate different supported housing models for older people, homeless people and people with disabilities in Britain and Sweden. The evaluation finds that the forms of supported housing that most increase the well-being of residents are those that enable residents to live in individual self-contained dwellings with full occupancy rights, whilst enabling them to receive appropriate support in these homes. The closer the model of supported housing is to an institution and the more that support is designed to control the behaviour of residents, the less is well-being achieved. The book concludes with recommendations for future policy and practice to support well-being.

• Item Type: Books
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Clapham, Professor David
• Authors: Clapham, D.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Urban Studies
• Publisher: Policy Press
• ISBN: 9781447306344