Why supportive housing?
Supportive housing for people with low incomes is one reasonable response to the following intertwined factors (among others): • The number of people who need assistance with daily activities is increasing. The population is aging and younger people with disabilities are living to older ages. In addition, long hospital stays are increasingly discouraged. • People strongly prefer to live in community rather than institutional settings. • Policymakers and individuals are interested in cost-effectiveness and flexibility. Settings with large numbers of older residents, such as senior housing, offer unique service delivery opportunities through service “clustering.” Clustering can reduce service costs, improve efficiency, and increase flexibility by reducing the number of workers on-site and the minimum hours workers must spend with one person. Stephen Golant, in his excellent report The Casera Project: Creating Affordable and Supportive Elder Renter Accommodations, put it this way: “Not co
