BACKGROUND Recent studies in North American contexts have suggested that the Housing First model is a promising strategy for providing effective services to homeless people with mental illness. In the context of the highly generous French national health and social care system, which is easily accessible and does not require out-of-pocket payment, the French Health Ministry insists on rigorous ...

consequent difficulty living independently, living in the community requires not only medical and support services, but also housing. All too often, however, housing sponsors and long-term care providers operate in isolation, leading at best to frustration on the part of individuals, who must piece together workable housing and service arrangements, and at worst to otherwise avoidable instituti...

Optimal housing selection is one of the most important challenges in housing demand, which most people, especially housing investors, are facing. Although there is an overall agreement on the importance of the budget role on choosing the house, the model that uniquely measures the role and impact of all the factors of investment demand for housing has not been presented and no clear explanation...

The rent of shelter accounts for approximately a third of the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Using a new housing rent index (RRI) developed by Ambrose, Coulson, and Yoshida (2014), we modify the CPI and compute the Taylor rule for the period from 2000 to 2010. With this timely rent index, Taylor rule becomes more consistent with the Federal funds rate than the conventional calculations. However, t...

Despite HUD’s endorsement of transitional housing as an essential part of a comprehensive continuum of care, consumers, providers, and advocates have frequently disagreed on its value, on the best ways of linking services to housing, and on appropriate mechanisms and sources for funding transitional housing programs. Critics have emphasized the stigma associated with transitional programs as we...

background: there are inconsistencies about the effects of farmworker housing and workplace conditions and use of self-protective behavior practices and personal protective equipment (ppe). objective: to investigate the association between workplace and housing conditions and farmworker use of pesticide safety practices and ppe. methods: this study was conducted in 4 counties in north carolina,...

Rapid urbanization and the scale of new buildings constructed in Malaysia demonstrate an urgent need for change in policy and mode of operation. National energy demand increased by 54% since 1994, which subsequently amplified carbon emissions growth by 221% (per head of population), dubbed highest in the world. Malaysia ranked 66 in the 2009 Human Development Index (HDI); and 54 on the Environm...