ArticleThe International journal on drug policy2016
Supportive housing and surveillance.
Article in The International journal on drug policy, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.
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- Reimagining subjectivities in place: Necropolitical logics of safer supply and housing in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Article
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- Increases in housing rules and surveillance during COVID-19: impacts on overdose and overdose response in a community-based cohort of sex workers who use drugs in Vancouver, BC.Harm reduction journal · 2024Article
- Using drugs alone in single room occupancy housing: Understanding environmental drivers of overdose risk.The International journal on drug policy · 2024Article
- Using alone at home: What's missing in housing-based responses to the overdose crisis?Harm reduction journal · 2024Review
- Managing high-risk behaviours and challenges to prevent housing loss in permanent supportive housing: a rapid review.Harm reduction journal · 2023Review
- Between Care and Control: Examining Surveillance Practices in Harm Reduction.Contemporary drug problems · 2023Article
- The "goldfish bowl": a qualitative study of the effects of heightened surveillance on people who use drugs in a rural and coastal Canadian setting.Harm reduction journal · 2022Article
- Single Room Occupancy Residence: Processes Linking Housing to Not Engaging in HIV Outpatient Care.AIDS and behavior · 2021Article
- Experimental (Re)structuring: The Clinical Trial as Turning Point Among Medical Research Participants.Qualitative health research · 2021Article
- Home and health among people living with HIV who use drugs: A qualitative study.The International journal on drug policy · 2020Article
- "Bed Bugs and Beyond": An ethnographic analysis of North America's first women-only supervised drug consumption site.The International journal on drug policy · 2020Article
- Women's utilization of housing-based overdose prevention sites in Vancouver, Canada: An ethnographic study.The International journal on drug policy · 2020Article
- "We don't got that kind of time, man. We're trying to get high!": Exploring potential use of drug checking technologies among structurally vulnerable people who use drugs.The International journal on drug policy · 2019Article
- Transitions in income generation among marginalized people who use drugs: A qualitative study on recycling and vulnerability to violence.The International journal on drug policy · 2018Article
- Negotiating space & drug use in emergency shelters with peer witness injection programs within the context of an overdose crisis: A qualitative study.Health & place · 2018Article
- Telling our stories: heroin-assisted treatment and SNAP activism in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.Harm reduction journal · 2017Article
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Abstract
Urban centres in the US, Britain and Canada have responded to identified visible 'social problems' such addiction, mental health and homelessness by providing some supportive housing for the urban poor and marginalized. While some critics have questioned what supportive housing specifically entails in terms of the built environment, what remains under explored, though a growing area of concern, is the relationship between surveillance and supportive housing for urban residents identified as having addiction and mental health problems - a gap addressed in this paper. Drawing upon qualitative ethnographic observational data we examine some of the measures of control and coercion that are encroaching into social housing primarily established for poor and marginalized people with addiction and mental health problems in the urban centre of Vancouver, Canada. We witnessed three modes of regulation and control, that vary widely, among the residencies observed: physical surveillance technologies; site-specific modes of coercion; police presence and staff surveillance, which all together impact the everyday lives of residents living in low-income and supportive housing. We argue that supportive housing has the potential to provide its intended commitment - safe and secure affordable housing. However, owing to an (over)emphasis on 'security', the supportive housing we observed were also sites of social control.
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