Pathways Supported Housing

Instrument name: Pathways Supported Housing Tenant Classification Guide and sample interview questions

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Citation: Burt, MR and Wilkins, C. (2005) Estimating the need: Projecting from point in time to annual estimates of the number of homeless people in a community and using this information to plan for permanent supportive housing. Corporation for Supportive Housing. CSH Evidence Series.

Purpose: To assess a person's homeless experiences and to classify whether or not that homelessness qualifies as chronic or not.

Population: Homeless and at-risk persons

Publication date(s): 2005

Domain: Housing history

Administration: Semi-structured interview

Reliability and validity information: None reported

Item description/response options: Six open-ended questions with probes assessing prior episodes of homelessness.

Description of tool: Tool published in a guide for homeless services providers and researchers generated by the Corporation for Supportive Housing.