Effective July 1, 2016, The Joint Commission Behavioral Health Care Accreditation Program will include permanent housing support services standards related to a “housing first” program model. The new standards, which are designed to assist individuals with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, or other behavioral health care issues, will appear in the “Care, Treatment, and Services” ...

Over the next 25 years, the number of seniors in North Carolina will double. North Carolina ranks third among the states for in-migration of retirees, and the majority of these retirees are seeking an active, independent lifestyle with support services they will need.1 While it is true that an overwhelming majority of older adults live in a community without the benefit of any formal services o...

OBJECTIVE The study examined changes in the use of shelters in New York City by mentally ill persons with a history of homelessness who received housing placements through the New York-New York (NY/NY) housing initiative between 1990 and 1999 and the impact of the initiative on the overall demand for shelter beds in the city. METHODS Computerized service records on housing, shelter use, and h...

BACKGROUND Problem gambling and homelessness are recognized as important public health concerns that significantly impact individuals, their friends and families, communities and broader society. We aimed to explore the experiences with health and social services of men who had histories of problem gambling and housing instability in Toronto, Ontario. METHODS We used a community-based partici...

In the U.S., macroeconomic policy makers are concerned about how consumers will respond to falling incomes, nominal home prices, falling income, rising mortgage interest rates and tightening credit standards. In order to address these questions, we estimate and simulate a dynamic structural model of housing demand. In the model, consumers maximize expected discounted lifetime utility from housi...

The household's decision to invest in a home is complicated by the fact that owner-occupied housing plays a dual role as both a physical good generating housing services, and as a component of the wealth portfolio. For many homeowners, housing represents both the largest single element of the monthly expenditure, and the most important asset in the wealth portfolio. Given the availability of re...