This paper analyses the coverage rate of Housing First in the overall population of homeless people in Denmark. Results show that in the municipalities that were part of the programme only one in twenty homeless people were enrolled in the programme. Moreover, following Kuhn and Culhane’s (1998) typology of shelter users, the study examines the proportion amongst the transitional, episodic, and chronic shelter users that were enrolled in the Housing First programme during the program period. Even in the primary target group for Housing First, the chronic shelter users, only 11% were included in the Housing First programme.
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