Known. Housed. Supported. Aligning housing to the needs of people on the Adelaide Zero Project By-Name List: data, considerations and implications
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2019
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Tually, S.
Goodwin Smith, I.
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The Adelaide Zero Project, like the Functional Zero approach upon which it is based, is a person centred initiative, designed to achieve sustainable housing and support outcomes for people experiencing homelessness. The Adelaide Zero Project/Functional Zero approach centre on Housing First (not housing only). Accordingly, consideration must be given to housing referral and placement pathways as part of the Adelaide Zero Project; especially how housing options and housing supply can be aligned with the housing and support needs of people on the By-Name List (BNL), and in the shortest time possible.
Within the Adelaide Zero Project we have termed the process or mechanism to support its Housing First focus aligned housing. Aligned housing focuses on an alignment between the housing stock/options allocated to people on the BNL, and the housing needs expressed by people on that list with regard to housing design and neighbourhood, including proximity to community services and supports. Aligned housing is functional housing. It is achieved when the supply of safe, low or no barrier housing and support options appropriate to individuals' needs is sufficient to maximise the sustainability of tenancies as people rebuild their lives post sleeping rough. Ensuring an adequate supply of aligned housing - now, in the medium and longer-term and, indeed, in perpetuity - is centralto Adelaide achieving, and sustaining, its aim of functionally ending street homelessness in the innercity.
This research report is the key output of the Aligned Housing Research Project commissioned by AnglicareSA and enabled by the Aligned Housing Working Group within the Adelaide Zero Project governance structure as part of their work advancing the aligned housing mechanism for the AdelaideZero Project. Aligned housing is central to the success of the Adelaide Zero Project as an ambitiousinitiative to end street homelessness (sleeping rough) in the inner city.
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