Policy shift or program drift? Implementing Housing First in Australia

AHURI Final Report

Volumn , Issue 184, 2012, Pages

  Johnson, Guy ^a   Parkinson, Sharon ^a   Parsell, Cameron ^b   Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, ^c   RMIT Research Centre, ^c  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Australia; Housing First; Policy shift; Program drift

Indexed keywords

EID: 85116177312     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18347223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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