The Glasgow Hostel Closure Programme: Findings ... - Asunto ensin

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The Glasgow Hostels• Longstanding concerns about large-scale hostels run byGlasgow City Council, NGOs and private sector• Originally designed to provide basic, short-termaccommodation; not equipped to provide intensive support forlong-term residents with complex needs• Glasgow Street Homelessness Review Team (2000) +Scottish Government funding = Hostel Closure Programme• Start of process GCC had 4 x 240 bed male hostels; singlerooms; very little support; severe problems of druguse/dealing, violence, suicide, money lending, etc.• All four hostels closed between 2000 and 2008, to be replacedby mainstream tenancies/smaller-scale supported units
Evaluation Aims andMethods• To examine the resettlement outcomes for exresidentsof the last two hostels to be closed down:Peter McCann House (2006) and James DuncanHouse (2008)• Method 1: interviews with service providers (n= 22)• Method 2: longitudinal survey of ‘ring-fenced’ exresidents:Wave 1 (average 19 months after lefthostel; n= 89); Wave 2 (average 33 months after lefthostel; n= 60)• Started in July 2007; final report published July 2010
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