Publications
From Residential Care to Supportive Housing for People with Psychiatric Disabilities: Past, Present, and Future
Marianne Farkas and Steve Coe (2019)
For centuries, treatment and accommodation for people with significant mental health conditions in many countries, including the United States, have been viewed as necessarily inseparable elements, first in asylums and then, with deinstitutionalization, in community care models. The advent of psychiatric rehabilitation and later, recovery, helped to shift …
Homes, Health, and Social Justice: A Role for Supportive Housing
Steve Coe (2019)
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recognized housing as a fundamental social determinant of health (SDH)1. And WHO’s Commission on Social Determinants of Health has stated that access to quality housing is a necessary element in securing social …
Responding to a Psychiatric Emergency: A Vision for Public Health Reform in New York City
Community Access, Inc. (2019)
In 2017 New York City’s emergency call center (911) received 170,000 calls classified as “...people in an apparent mental health crisis.” The standard protocol for responding to these calls is to deploy an ambulance and police officers. What happens next can vary widely, depending on the training of …
Avoiding Tragedy when police respond to people in crisis
Steve Coe (2017)
In October 1984, New York City police officers were sent to the apartment of Eleanor Bumpurs, a 66-year-old African-American woman who had lived in a Bronx New York City Housing Authority unit for over 40 years. She was four months behind in her $98-per-month rent and was …
The fight for supportive housing isn’t over yet
Steve Coe et al (2016)
The prolonged release of the $2 billion Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed in his State of the State address to build supportive and affordable housing finally has …
On the Shoulders of Giants: The Path to Building Supportive Housing
Steve Coe (2012)
It was the summer of 1979, July 5th to be exact, the first day of my internship at Community Access. My job was to help run a pair of tenement buildings with 44 apartments that provided cheap homes to poor families and single men and women who had been recently …