Experiences of Housing First for service users and staff in a Salvation Army service

Housing First (HF) is an approach to ending homelessness that focuses on providing immediate, permanent, low-barrier, non-abstinence-based supportive housing for individuals with the lived experience of homelessness.This study explored the experiences and views of those providing and receiving Housing First tenancies. It focused on a scattered HF programme in central Scotland. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven HF staff members and 11 clients in a third sector service in Scotland. A paper describing the findings has been published: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09687637.2021.1926429