COVID-19 and rough sleepers: a randomised controlled trial to evaluate models of housing and support to reduce infection and homelessness

COVID-19 和露宿者：一项随机对照试验，旨在评估减少感染和无家可归的住房和支持模式

基本信息

批准号：
ES/V011855/1
负责人：
Peter Mackie
金额：
$ 71.44万
依托单位：
CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2020 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FV011855%2F1
关键词：
COVID 19 rough sleepers randomised

项目摘要

As part of the government's response to COVID-19, 15,000 rough sleepers have now been offered self-contained temporary accommodation in England, mainly in hotels. This approach, which has involved the decanting of hostels, shelters and similar shared provision for rough sleepers, is a short-term response.When the lockdown ends, decisions will need to be taken about how to house former rough sleepers in line with the UK government's commitment to prevent people from going back to the streets - including, potentially, through the re-opening of shelter-type accommodation. Existing temporary accommodation with shared facilities might make it impossible for people to comply with government social distancing advice. So these decisions will impact on the risk of a second wave of infection from COVID-19 and possibly any mutations.This proposal outlines a unique time limited opportunity to conduct the first ever randomised controlled trial in the UK, to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of permanent housing on the risk of COVID-19 infection and housing stability for people experiencing homelessness.That many homeless people are currently waiting to be housed means they can be randomly allocated to different housing solutions at scale quickly. The insights drawn from the short-term impacts of permanent housing can be used to inform other local authorities' responses to the challenges of COVID-19 and the cost-effectiveness of accommodation alternatives more broadly.

作为政府对Covid-19的回应的一部分，现在已经在英格兰提供了15,000名艰难的卧铺，主要是在酒店。这种方法涉及到旅馆，庇护所和针对粗糙卧铺的类似共享条款的倾斜，这是一种短期的反应。当锁定结束时，需要做出关于如何与英国政府的承诺相一致的决定，以防止人们回到街头，包括，包括，通过居住在街头居住，可以通过重新开放庇护所供应庇护所，则需要做出决定。现有的带有共享设施的临时住宿可能使人们无法遵守政府的社会疏远建议。因此，这些决定将影响从COVID-19以及可能发生的任何突变发生第二波感染风险的风险。该提案概述了一个独特的时代有限的机会，即在英国进行有史以来第一次随机对照试验的机会，以评估永久性住房的有效性和成本效益，以评估随机居住的人的无家可归者，这些人是无家可归的人，这些人是无家可归的人。迅速分配给不同的住房解决方案。从永久住房的短期影响中得出的见解可用于向其他地方当局对Covid-19的挑战和住宿替代方案的成本效益的回应提供信息。