Frequent User Service Enhancement

Instrument name: Frequent User Service Enhancement (FUSE) Baseline Questionnaire Housing Status Module and Revised Residential History Follow Back Form

To obtain the Housing and Services Questionnaire click here
To obtain the Residential History Follow Back Form* click here

Citation: Aidala AA, Apicello J, McAllister, W. 2009. FUSE New York City: Multiple and Varied Housing Histories of a Re-Entry Population. Paper presented at the meetings of the American Public Health Association, Philadelphia, PA.

Purpose: To capture detailed housing histories on diverse aspects of participants' current and past living situations, the amount of time in each situation, and transitions between them.

Population: Homeless adults with history of incarceration

Publication date(s): 2008

Domain: Housing status; housing history

Administration:  In-person structured interview

Reliability and validity information:  Self-report compared with administrative data (pending)

Housing-related item description/response options:

Current Housing and Living Arrangements (Section A - #1-25): Questions assessing housing history in the past 6-months

Current Housing and Living Arrangements (Section A - #26-29): Questions assessing housing history prior to the past 6-months

Current Housing and Living Arrangements (Section A - #30-40): Questions assessing neighborhood conditions

Residential History (Section C): Questions about housing and living arrangements over the past 5yrs.

Description of the original study:  FUSE evaluates a supportive housing intervention for persons with multiple shelter stays and jail experience. Researchers analyze housing histories in two ways.  Detailed information collected about housing and housing transitions provides rich detail about multiple dimensions of housing and living arrangements and reasons for housing loss not captured by stable/unstable or other dichotomous classifications. The second approach uses trajectory analysis methods to identify individuals sharing similar patterns of living conditions, focusing on different patterns of institutional histories of living in shelters, jails/ prisons, hospitals and other residential settings as well as non-institutional living situations. Researchers analyze the extent to which individual characteristics and/or receipt of housing assistance and other services are associated with different housing trajectories.

* Adapted from the Dartmouth Residential History Follow-Back Form for application in general homeless settings.