What Policies and Policy Processes Are Needed to Ensure that People with Psychiatric Disabilities Have Access to Appropriate Housing?
Samantha Battams & Fran Baum, Flinders University
Social Science & Medicine, Article in Press, Online - January 2010
This paper uses data from a South Australian case study of a period of mental health reform (2000-2005) to answer the question of how different policy networks set agenda and implement policy to ensure that people with psychiatric disabilities have access to appropriate housing.
The research indicated that, despite a number of 'inter-sectoral projects' and regional networks, the health and housing sectors were essentially separate policy systems with little integration. It also concluded that the absence of strategic integration across sectors leads to inadequate housing for people with a psychiatric disability.
The paper concludes with a discussion of policy and policy processes which will support housing outcomes for people with psychiatric disability.
