Single-site Supportive Housing: Tenant Perspectives

Cameron Parsell, Maree Petersen and Ornella Moutou

Housing Studies, 2015, vol. 30, issue 8, 1189-1209

Abstract: We examined tenants' experiences and perception living in a single-site supportive housing. Recent evidence demonstrates the effectiveness of secure housing with linked voluntary support services as a successful in enabling people with high vulnerabilities to exit homelessness and sustain housing. Scholars and policy-makers continue to debate the merits of scattered site housing with person centred support, on the one hand, and single-site supportive housing with onsite support, on the other. The manuscript is based on survey and qualitative data with 120 tenants in a single-site supportive housing: ( n = 60) formerly homeless and ( n = 60) allocated housing because of low to moderate income. The results show that tenant experience single-site supportive housing as home; for many single-site supportive housing constitutes community. Conversely, some design and security features of single-site supportive housing undermined tenants autonomy and feeling of home. Moreover, close contact with other tenants meant that single-site supportive housing was also anti-community.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1009874

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