Housing plus services: supporting vulnerable families in permanent housing.
The importance of integrating services with housing to help low-income families achieve stability is gaining recognition. The variations in types of existing housing and service initiatives have produced a complex language with multiple meanings and overlapping definitions. The National Low Income Housing Coalition proposes the umbrella term housing plus services to refer to these programs. Following a review of the literature on the relationship of housing to child well-being, the article discusses and illustrates the National Low Income Housing Coalition's principles for and typology of housing plus services.
Cohen
Carol S
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Adelphi University School of Social Work, Garden City, NY, USA.
Mulroy
Elizabeth
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Tull
Tanya
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White
Catherine
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Crowley
Sheila
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