NCT03334825

Enhanced Housing Placement Assistance

An Enhanced Housing Placement Assistance (EHPA) Program for Homeless Persons Living With HIV/AIDS in New York City

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 236 (actual)
• Sponsor: New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Randomized controlled trial of housing placement assistance for homeless persons with HIV

Detailed description

Approximately 800 persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) reside in HIV emergency single-room-occupancy (SRO) hotels in New York City and do not have the ability to secure permanent housing on their own. The study evaluated a pilot program which fast-tracked PLWHA from HIV emergency SRO hotels into permanent housing. The Enhanced Housing Placement Assistance (EHPA) program had three components: 1) active recruitment of emergency SRO hotel residents with high need for housing; 2) assistance in the rapid (fast-track) acquisition of permanent housing; and 3) participation in a 12-month support services program designed to prevent PLWHA from relapsing into homelessness, with services focused on increasing clients' capacity to live independently and maintain housing stability. Participants were randomly assigned to either 1) EHPA or 2) usual care, which included standard connections to services and housing programs offered by the New York City HIV/AIDS Services Administration (HASA), Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA), or Ryan White services, and were followed over twelve months using a questionnaire developed with significant input from the target population of PLWHA residing in emergency SRO hotels.

Conditions

• HIV/AIDS
• Housing Problems

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Enhanced housing placement assistance	assistance in the rapid (fast-track) acquisition of permanent housing; and participation in a 12-month support services program designed to prevent PLWHA from relapsing into homelessness, with services focused on increasing clients' capacity to live independently and maintain housing stability
OTHER	Standard housing placement assistance	standard connections to services and housing programs offered by HASA, HOPWA, or Ryan White

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-04-01
• Primary completion: 2017-07-31
• Completion: 2017-07-31
• First posted: 2017-11-07
• Last updated: 2019-02-08
• Results posted: 2019-02-08