Greenwood, RonniManning, RachelO'Shaughnessy, Branagh R.Vargas‐Moniz, MariaAuquier, PascalLenzi, MichelaWolf, JudithBokszczanin, AnnaBernad, RobertoKällmen, HåkanSpinnewijn, FreekOrnelas, José2021-11-112021-11-112021Greenwood, 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.257710529284http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/8354The 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.engCapabilitiesHomelessnessHousing firstjournal article10.1002/casp.2577