Housing First for Homeless Persons with Active Addiction: Are We Overreaching?
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Housing first for homeless persons with active addiction: are we overreaching?
CONTEXT More than 350 communities in the United States have committed to ending chronic homelessness. One nationally prominent approach, Housing First, offers early access to permanent housing without requiring completion of treatment or, for clients with addiction, proof of sobriety. METHODS This article reviews studies of Housing First and more traditional rehabilitative (e.g., "linear") re...
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عنوان ژورنال: Milbank Quarterly
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0887-378X
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0009.2009.00565.x