Housing First for Long-Term Shelter Dwellers with Psychiatric Disabilities in a Suburban County: A Four-Year Study of Housing Access and Retention

Table 1 Demographics, psychiatric diagnoses, and substance abuse disorders of originally assigned groups^a

	Pathways (n = 105)		Consortium (n = 104)		Control (n = 51)
	N	%	N	%	N	%
Sex
Male	71	67.6	83	79.8	39	76.5
Female	34	32.4	21	20.2	12	23.5
Race
African-American	63	60	56	53.8	28	54.9
Hispanic	8	7.6	13	12.5	7	13.7
Caucasian	30	28.6	29	27.9	14	27.5
Other	1	0.9	2	1.9	0	0
Unreported	3	2.9	4	3.9	2	3.9
Alcohol
Dependence/Abuse	48	45.7	36	34.6	21	41.2
Dependence/Abuse in Remission	9	8.6	18	17.3	8	15.7
Unspecified	0	0	3	0	5	9.8
Drug
Dependence/Abuse	54	51.4	33	31.7	20	39.2
Dependence/Abuse in Remission	8	7.6	19	18.3	8	15.7
Unspecified	3	2.9	3	2.9	3	5.9
Mental Illness
Schizophrenia	48	45.7	45	43.3	16	31.4
Major Depressive Disorder	12	11.4	15	14.4	6	11.8
Bipolar Disorder	19	18.1	18	17.3	12	23.5
Shizoaffective Disorder	11	10.5	2	1.9	2	3.9
Other	10	9.5	15	14.4	11	21.6
Information unavailable	5	4.8	9	8.7	4	7.8

^aDemographic characteristics were not available for participants who were randomly assigned to Housing First in the second and third rounds of the project