Case Study: Big Island Rural Supportive Housing Model

This video reviews the research findings of Western University that were presented on October 29, 2019. The research study looked to measure and record the qualitative and quantitative attributes of rural permanent supportive housing provided by Kate’s Rest Foundation. As there is a lack of studies of the forms of responses to rural homelessness in Canada, this study is, therefore, an important contribution to that social sciences literature.

‘The Big Island Model’: Resident experiences of a novel permanent supportive housing model for responding to rural homelessness