Not a “forever model”
The curious case of graduation in Housing First
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11670400 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jalene T Anderson-Baron (0000-0003-3992-6081, University of Alberta), D Collins (0000-0002-7981-3586, University of Alberta, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 587-605 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0272-3638 • E-ISSN: 1938-2847 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02723638.2017.1375826 |
| OpenAlex | W2753597280 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 20 |
This article investigates how Housing First (HF) is practiced in Alberta, Canada, with a focus on the concept of graduation. The dominant HF model, Pathways, holds that client support should be time-unlimited. However, HF is highly mobile and increasingly characterized by ambiguity and drift away from Pathways principles. In Alberta, one prominent example of drift is the notion that clients can and should graduate – that is, “exit” HF programs after a certain time. Interviews conducted with 45 participants in three Alberta cities in 2014–15 revealed commonplace, but contested, graduation practices. Interviewees noted that graduation can be necessary to make room for new clients, and may be expected and encouraged by coordinating organizations. They expressed varied concerns about graduation, and the negative influence it could have on client relationships and housing stability. In particular, they emphasized clients’ ongoing dependence on rental subsidies, and the risk of relapse into homelessness
Ambiguity · Graduation (instrument · Political science · Public relations · Rental housing · Renting · Sociology · Subsidy · Computer Science · Engineering · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Urban Social Housing Pathways
Fatores contextuais e implantação da intervenção Housing First
Promoting social goals through economisation? Social investment and the counterintuitive case of homelessness
Longing for a Forever Home
Investable poverty
Assessing Housing First programs from a right to housing perspective
Take whatever you can get’
A study of the creation of affordable housing for Housing First tenants through the purchase of condominiums
Housing the homeless
Identifying Graduation Rates and Practices in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing Program
Climbing, stalling, falling
Bios and arrows
Qualitative Data Analysis for Applied Policy Research
Housing First the conversation
Neutralizing homelessness
House broken
Homelessness in Canada and New Zealand
Housing Histories and Homeless Careers
From streets to homes
Pathways Housing First for Homeless Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities
Substance Use Outcomes Among Homeless Clients with Serious Mental Illness
Does the Punitive Need the Supportive? A Sympathetic Critique of Current Grammars of Urban Injustice
Housing First' and the Changing Terrains of Homeless Governance
Homeless Mobility, Institutional Settings, and the New Poverty Management
Homelessness, bedspace and the case for Housing First in Canada
Supportive measures, enabling restraint
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,71 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |