Housing tailored to those least able to afford it? The concept is having something of a renaissance world-wide. Of the many possible ways of designing this kind of housing, the term ‘social housing’ is one example.
Is government/community social housing the inevitable destination for those with a particularly limited family income? Are there family behaviours that can mitigate the risk of needing social housing? Potentially far more frightening: could family survival practices lead to becoming homeless?
The following study explores family behaviours to find out whether any of them can predict who is most likely to become homeless. The study also points out that all of the behaviours take place in a housing market that is unsustainable for people with very low incomes. A range of policy remedies are recommended for households with low incomes, including raising incomes, reducing housing costs, and offering rental assistance.
Read the abstract and the full article at The National Library of Medicine: Predicting homelessness: Housing risk insights from latent class analysis
Need some help with the meaning of ‘latent class?’ From Wikipedia: Latent class model
. . . and this article, which is posted at The National Library of Medicine: Practitioner’s Guide to Latent Class Analysis: Methodological Considerations and Common Pitfalls.
