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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wong, Yin-Ling Irene
• Huangfu, Yiyue
• Hadley, Trevor

Titel

Place and community inclusion: Locational patterns of supportive housing for people with intellectual disability and people with psychiatric disorders

Ist Teil von

• Research in developmental disabilities, 2018-12, Vol.83, p.108-119

Ort / Verlag

United States: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• •We examinedhousing locations of people with intellectual disability (ID) and people with psychiatric disorders (PD).•People with ID were geographically more dispersed than people with PD.•People with PD were concentrated in disadvantaged, residentially unstable and racially/ethnically diverse neighborhoods.•Differences between the two populations were more distinct in the urban than the suburban county.•The study provides a spatial-analytic method for assessing community inclusion with regard to integrated housing. This study examines the locational patterns of publicly-funded supportive housing for people with intellectual disability (people with ID) and people with psychiatric disorders (people with PD). Administrative data provided housing locations of 4599 people with ID and people with PD in one urban county and one suburban county in the United States. Census tract data captured neighborhood characteristics. Descriptive statistics and spatial analysis were used to analyze the distribution of supportive housing sites. People with ID were more dispersed across a larger number of census tracts with smaller number of residents per tract than people with PD. While spatial dispersion in favor of people with ID was consistent across both counties, difference in dispersion was more pronounced in the urban county. People with PD were concentrated in neighborhoods with more socio-economic disadvantage, more residential instability, and a higher level of race/ethnic diversity than people with ID. This study suggests that spatial-analytic method can serve as a useful tool for assessing the extent to which integrated housing is achieved for people with ID and people with PD. Interpretation of findings should be given due consideration of the policy context and neighborhood characteristics of the study communities.