Talk:Housing First

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Undue weight of criticism section

The criticism section is a wonderful example of politically-motivated WP:UNDUE and WP:CRYSTAL. We have five paragraphs predicting the failure of the program in the U.S. and its imminent demise, while current reliable sources say the exact opposite, and describe it as the most successful homelessness program in American history. Viriditas (talk) 00:02, 19 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Updated Critique 11/8/2017

Hello Fellow Wikipedians!

I do have some suggestions to improve this article. Housing First is an important and relatively new policy. However, I am noticing that this article needs an update.

1. In the articles “General Principles” they make reference project-based and scatter site implementations, but make no reference to what those implementation types are. They also refer to scatter-site implantation in the “Outside the United States” section of the article. The following is an excerpt from Collins, Malone, and Clifasefi 2013:

“In the scattered-site Housing First model, residents are offered a choice of individual housing units located throughout a community. Additionally, residents can choose to access a variety of supportive services that are delivered using an assertive community treatment model. In single-site or project-based Housing First programs, residents are offered units within a single housing project, where they can elect to receive centrally delivered case-management and supportive services. Perhaps the most well-researched and widely cited single-site Housing First model is the one established in the 1990s by the Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC) in Seattle, Washington.2,8–12”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3969126/

Including this information would be important for readers to understand the difference between scatter-site and project-based Housing First. Additionally, information regarding the preference of recipients and effectiveness of the two models would strengthen this article and give more insight into the implementation of Housing First. It is important to define these two implementation types and not assume the reader will automatically know meaning and difference between the two.

2. The article mentions in the “General Principles” that the goal of Housing First is that it:

“offers permanent, affordable housing as quickly as possible for individuals and families experiencing homelessness, and then provides the supportive services and connections to the community-based supports people need to keep their housing and avoid returning to homelessness.”

It would help if in the “Evidence and Outcomes” section there was a study that measured the retention rate of participants in the Housing First program. It will help readers to know if the Housing First model has a lower or higher retention rate that tradition housing programs.

For example, Tsemberis et Eisenberg 2000 found that “Clients in linear programs were less likely to remain housed (47% at five years) compared to clients in Pathway to Housing (88%).”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10737824

3. Last, there needs to be a more literature regarding the limitations of this policy. All of the cities this policy has been implemented are large, left-leaning cities. I believe that this policy has been implemented in more U.S cities and the article needs to be updated. Furthermore, there needs to be more literature regarding the economic feasibility of this policy in not just larger, well-funded cities, but also its possible implementation in smaller suburban cities with dense homeless populations.

Thank you! Mkarceo (talk) 04:13, 9 November 2017 (UTC)mkarceo (talk) 20:13, 8 November 2017 (UTC).[reply]

Sources

https://psmag.com/social-justice/landlords-recreation-essential-housing-first-program-81439 Graywalls (talk) 05:26, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Notification: Housing in the United States

A request has been submitted to WikiProject United States for a new article to be created on the topic of Housing in the United States. Please join the discussion or consider contributing to the new article. Best regards, -- M2545 (talk) 08:20, 4 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]