Housing Model Evaluation (HOME): Improvements in Health Associated with Housing-Led Systems for People Experiencing Homelessness

Aims:

To provide policy makers and planners in England with an evidence informed ‘road map’ that will aid the
design of housing-led systems, focusing on maximising the health impacts for people with histories of
chronic/repeat homelessness.

Objectives:

To understand the Contexts that promote/hinder the integration of different housing models as a single
system to deliver rapid rehousing and improvements in health and well-being.
To understand the Mechanisms through which housing-led systems achieve changes in health and wellbeing
(what works for whom, under what circumstances and how?).
To undertake an economic modelling exercise to understand the impacts of housing-led systems on
wider public services.
To establish the Outcomes of housing-led systems on health and well-being: What is the impact of
different housing models on morbidity and mortality outcomes and emergency and secondary care usage;
and What is the population-level effect of local policies and investments in housing-led systems on
healthcare use and health outcomes.

Impacts/Outputs:

Outputs will include a final report for the NIHR journal series, peer reviewed publications, policy briefing
papers, and national and international conference presentations. The ethnographic study and data linkage
work will influence housing policy internationally. A toolkit will be developed based on the ‘road map’ and
disseminated to local stakeholders (including people with lived experience) via regional roadshows, in
partnership with the Local Government Association. This approach will bring together key stakeholders to
promote local consensus for change through shared and costed implementation plans.

Funder:

National Institute for Health and Care Research Public Health Research Programme (RHRP 21/524)

Joint Project Leads:

Professor Michelle Cornes (University of Salford and Visiting Professorial Fellow, King’s College London)

Professor Andrew Hayward (University College London)

Project Team:

Joanne Coombes

Jess Harris (King’s College London)

Robert Aldridge

Dan Lewer

Dee Menezes (University College London)

Michela Tinelli