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Structure and agency in capabilities‐enhancing homeless services: Housing first, housing quality and consumer choice
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The capabilities approach, a framework for understanding and
measuring inequality, stipulates that equality is best understood
as the freedom to do and be within a particular context.
Homelessness has been referred to as a situation of ‘capabilities
deprivation’, and the extent to which homeless services
restore or enhance capabilities is of increasing interest. As part
of a large, eight-country study of homelessness in Europe, we
examined the extent to which adults with histories of perceived the services they receive as
capabilities-enhancing. We collected data at two time points:
baseline (nt1 = 565) and follow-up (nt2 = 399). Measures
included perceived capabilities, choice and housing quality. Participants
engaged with Housing First (HF) programmes perceived
services as more capabilities-enhancing than
participants engaged with treatment as usual (TAU); this relationship
was mediated by consumer choice and perceived
housing quality. Implications for social policy, practice and
training are discussed.
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Keywords
Capabilities Homelessness Housing first
Citation
Greenwood, R. M., Manning, R. M., O’Shaughnessy, B. R., Vargas, M. M. J., Auquier, P., Lenzi, M., Wolf, J., Bokszczanin, A., Bernad, R., Källmén, H., Spinnewijn, F., & Ornelas, J. (2021). Structure and agency in capabilities‐enhancing homeless services: Housing first, housing quality and consumer choice. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 1. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2577
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd