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Permanent Supportive Housing provides housing assistance and support services to people living with disabilities including serious mental illness and substance use disorders. “Supported Housing” is an evidence-based practice that is a form of Permanent Supportive Housing based on a “Housing First” philosophy. Housing development based on a Housing First philosophy has been the predominant strategy for moving people who are homeless and living with serious mental illness out of chronic homelessness for the past three decades. Mental health care is one of the support services offered in many Supported Housing programs. The aim of Supported Housing is not only to provide housing, but also to help integrate people into the community. Since the development of the first Supported Housing programs in the 1980s, several studies have demonstrated that the model is both effective at housing retention and also cost-effective. Mental health care is a support service that helps many tenants of Supported Housing both to remain stably housed and to be able to work towards recovery. The delivery of mental health care in Supported Housing deviates from care in more traditional brick-and-mortar clinics with advantages and disadvantages.
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Yu, V. (2022). Housing First and the Role of Psychiatry in Supported Housing. In: Sowers, W.E., McQuistion, H.L., Ranz, J.M., Feldman, J.M., Runnels, P.S. (eds) Textbook of Community Psychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10239-4_35
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