title: Development of a Measure of Housing and Housing Services.
abstract: The Housing Program Measure (HPM) was designed to document critical elements of a range of housing program types and associated services. Qualitative methods, including literature review and open-ended interviews, were used to determine pertinent HPM domains and to develop the pool of items. The measure was pre-tested, and reliability and validity analyses were applied to revise and strengthen the measure. The resulting measure furthers homelessness research by providing a tool that can be used to define housing and housing services interventions across diverse projects and disciplines, to facilitate program management by matching housing resources to the needs of homeless individuals, and to support model development by measuring progress to goals.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, Mailpoint: MHC 2732, Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida, 13301 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., Tampa, FL, 33612-3807, USA. cclark8@usf.edu.
authors.forename: Colleen
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9877-6752
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Clark
authors.affiliation: Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, Mailpoint: MHC 2732, Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida, 13301 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., Tampa, FL, 33612-3807, USA.
authors.forename: M Scott
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Young
authors.affiliation: Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, Mailpoint: MHC 2732, Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida, 13301 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., Tampa, FL, 33612-3807, USA.
authors.forename: Gregory
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Teague
authors.affiliation: Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, Mailpoint: MHC 2732, Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida, 13301 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., Tampa, FL, 33612-3807, USA.
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rynearson-Moody
mesh_terms: D006703:Ill-Housed Persons; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods*; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012946:Social Welfare; D014728:Veterans
keywords: Homeless veterans; Housing measure; Measure development; Supported housing