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This paper describes and assesses the housing component of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Program on Mental Illness, an attempt to test the effects of increasing the supply of affordable, permanent housing available to those with chronic mental illness. Four features of the organization and delivery of independent housing are examined: (1) the structure of the housing development entity; (2) linkages between the housing and mental health systems; (3) targeting of tenant applicants for independent housing; and (4) special issues in providing housing assistance to the homeless mentally ill.
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This paper was prepared as part of the National Evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Program on Chronic Mental Illness. The national evaluation is supported by grants from the Foundation, the NIMH, several federal agencies, and the Ohio Department of Mental Health, to the Mental Health Policy Studies Program of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Coinvestigators are with the Health Services Research Center of the University of North Carolina, the Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies, and the Health Services Research and Development Center for the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.
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Newman, S., Ridgely, M.S. Independent housing for persons with chronic mental illness. Adm Policy Ment Health 21, 199–215 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00707486
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00707486