In my previous post I started to unpack some of the intricacies of housing first. What I hope this highlighted was that although housing first is an overall effective model, there is still some work to do in terms of refining what it means for sub-populations of people experiencing homelessness. So, over the next several weeks I want to start to unpack what we know and what we don’t know about Housing First for the following populations:
- Those with mental health challenges;
- Youth;
- The chronically homeless;
- Those with addictions;
- Aboriginal peoples;
- Older adults;
- Those leaving the justice system;
- Families;
- Women.
I have purposely ordered these in terms of those populations where we have the most work to guide us to date, to those where we have the least. In each post I will explore what we already know in terms of best practices for housing first, and what we need to know more about.
