Sidebar: Keys to Independence: Supportive Housing

Independence-supportive Praise versus Interdependence-promoting Praise

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This Essay explores the emerging literature on the negotiation of structural constitutional governance, to which Professor Aziz Huq has made an important contribution in The Negotiated Structural Constitution.1 In the piece, Professor Huq reviews the negotiation of constitutional entitlements and challenges the conventional wisdom about the limits of political bargaining as a means of allocatin...

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Professors Jessica Bulman-Pozen and David Pozen (BP&P) strikingly identify and intriguingly elaborate a new category of political dissent, uncivil obedience, which they propose serves as a complement to the betterknown political category civil disobedience.1 Civil disobedience familiarly involves law-breaking that aims not at impunity but rather legal reform and thus arises in the context of re...

Supportive housing cuts costs of caring for the chronically homeless.

IN THE LATE 1990S, SEATTLE LEADers recognized the city had a problem. Homeless people with severe alcoholism consumed a tremendous share of public dollars, cycling in and out of emergency departments and the criminal justice system. The city’s political, business, and hospital leaders joined forces with social service and substance abuse treatment agencies to adopt a new strategy not only to cu...

Supportive housing for homeless people with severe mental illness.

Research suggests that as many as 110,000 single adults with severe mental illness (SMI) are homeless on any given day in the United States. The combination of mental illness and homelessness make this population especially hard to reach through either housing or mental health programs alone. Supportive housing programs, which provide independent housing along with health and social services, h...