What factors are associated with loss of supported housing?

Psychiatric hospitalizations, emergency department visits, and institutional history are linked to housing loss. In chronically homeless patients with serious mental illness and substance use disorders (SUD), transitioning into permanent, community-based housing with supportive services (“supported housing”) is a challenge.

 Though supported housing cannot mandate engagement in health care, these findings stress the importance of adequate linkages to psychiatric and related mental health care pre- and post-supported housing enrollment, particularly for vulnerable individuals with serious mental illness and/or SUDs.

Reflections on Psychiatry in Supported Housing

1. Gabrielian S, Burns AV, Nanda N, et al. 

Factors associated with premature exits from supported housing

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