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Exploring Multiple Levels of Access to Rental Subsidies and Supportive Housing

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Pages 467-484
Received 12 Apr 2013
Accepted 10 Dec 2013
Published online: 25 Mar 2014

Despite the well-documented benefits of stable housing, there are myriad barriers that preclude low-income and homeless individuals from accessing housing support. This article examines which individual characteristics predict greater or more limited access to supportive housing and rental subsidy programs in Hartford, Connecticut. Although individuals with HIV/AIDS are most likely to access housing, options are limited for other vulnerable populations, including those with substance use disorders and mental illness.

Acknowledgments

This research was funded in part by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA024578) and the National Institute of Mental Health (P30MH57226).

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Katherine Quinn

Katherine Quinn, MA, is a doctoral candidate in public and community health at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Her research interests include a focus on structural and social HIV risk factors, including the role of housing in HIV prevention. She has a bachelor's degree in social welfare and justice from Marquette University and a master's in social service administration from the University of Chicago. Her dissertation work is focusing on the effects of religiosity on the lives of young black men who have sex with men.

Julia Dickson-Gomez

Dr. Julia Dickson-Gomez studies HIV prevention among drug users in the United States and El Salvador and is also interested in the influence of structural factors on HIV risk. Her research explores the effects of housing policy on drug users' access to housing, variations in housing status and housing options of drug users, and levels of HIV risk related to these factors. Dickson-Gomez's work also explores macro- and micro-social contexts of crack use and HIV risk in communities in El Salvador. She has used qualitative methods to evaluate network-based HIV prevention interventions for drug users and at-risk women.

Timothy McAuliffe

Dr. Timothy McAuliffe is a biostatistician with particular experience in the evaluation of HIV prevention intervention outcomes. His research at the Center for AIDS Intervention Research focuses on the reliability and validity of self-reported risk behavior and on developing and evaluating novel HIV risk assessment strategies and methods to evaluate the effectiveness of HIV prevention interventions, including electronic diary reports for reporting sexual activity. His expertise has led to the development of analytical strategies in HIV prevention trials involving community and social network randomization.

Jill Owczarzak

Dr. Jill Owczarzak, a medical anthropologist, is concerned with how models of health intervention address questions of health disparity. Her research focuses on HIV vulnerability among men who have sex with men, sex workers, and injection drug users in Eastern Europe, particularly in Poland. She has used qualitative methods to explore how international organizations perceive HIV risk and how they incorporate ideas of risk into their HIV prevention programs. Owczarzak's interests include how providers adopt and modify prevention interventions and the effectiveness of these modified interventions in reducing health disparities.
 

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