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Housing First' For The Chronically Homless: Challenges Of A New Service Model, Nestor M. Davidson
Housing First' For The Chronically Homless: Challenges Of A New Service Model, Nestor M. Davidson
Faculty Scholarship
Increasingly in recent years, policymakers have focused their efforts on ending chronic homelessness and, in particular, on individuals grappling with mental illness, substance abuse, and similar challenges. Central to this effort has been the rise of a new model of service provision called Housing First. Housing First reverses the long-standing practice of conditioning housing on compliance with treatment plans or other service requirements, instead providing immediate independent living for chronically homeless individuals with dual or multiple diagnoses and only then making intensive services available. This Commentary reviews this important policy shift and explores some conceptual and practical challenges in moving …
Homelessness And Substance Abuse: Is Mandatory Treatment The Solution?, Melanie B. Abbott
Homelessness And Substance Abuse: Is Mandatory Treatment The Solution?, Melanie B. Abbott
Fordham Urban Law Journal
For the government to be successful in addressing homelessness, it must focus on the link between homelessness and substance abuse. In New York City and elsewhere, advocates are reluctant to publicize the connection between substance abuse and homelessness. Federal laws and programs that attempt to deal with homelessness, such as welfare, Social Security, federal housing laws, and the McKinney Act and other various federal acts do not provide a comprehensive approach to treatment of those who are both homeless and substance abusers. Because the Supreme Court has held that the Constitution does not provide a right to shelter, advocates have …