Housing, Care and Support: Volume 26 Issue 3/4

A thematic analysis of homelessness practitioners’ perception of the impacts of welfare reforms in the UK: “Hard to maintain my own mental equilibrium”

Bruno De Oliveira

This paper aims to explore the lived experiences of key stakeholders working with homeless people during the implementation of universal credit during the austerity years.

Advantages and challenges of extra care housing in the UK for people living with dementia: a scoping review

Teresa June Atkinson, Rebecca Oatley, Simon Evans

The purpose of this paper is to report on a scoping review of the advantages and challenges of extra care housing (ECH) provision in the UK for people living with dementia. Access…

Filling in the gaps: examining the prevalence of Black homelessness in Canada

Ashley Wilkinson, Khater Muhajir, Patricia Bailey-Brown, Alana Jones, Rebecca Schiff

Due to ongoing inequities in the social determinants of health and systemic barriers, homelessness continues to be a significant concern that disproportionately impacts racialized…

Choosing invisibility? Exploring service (dis)engagement of women experiencing multiple disadvantage

Carolin Hess

The shift in policy discourse towards individualism is affecting service provision and access, which has become increasingly conditioned on individual agency and the…

Health care support systems for informal settlement rental housing during the COVID-19 season: landlord’s perspective

Fauster Agbenyo, Miller Williams Appau, Eunice Yorgri

This paper aims to examine landlords’ health support systems to tenants to control COVID-19 in selected informal settlement rental housing (ISRH) in Ghana, dwelling on landlords’…

Reviewing the affordability and adequacy of affordable housing in urban India: impact of the covid-19 pandemic

Shagun Agarwal, Tribhuvan Pratap Singh, Deepak Bajaj

Housing policies in India (last modified in 2017) define “affordable housing” on three main parameters – income of the target group, dwelling unit size and house price to income…

To stay or go? Understanding ambivalence toward moving on from supportive housing among supportive housing residents in a Moving On initiative

Kimberly Livingstone, Emmy Tiderington

Moving On initiatives (MOIs) provide opportunities for permanent supportive housing (PSH) residents to exit PSH services for mainstream housing. This study aims to better…