The Lewin Group, LeadingAge Center for Applied Research (CFAR), and National Center for Healthy Housing have been selected by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to serve as the Implementation Team for a major new randomized control trial testing a service-enriched housing model for low-income older adults.
Forty HUD-assisted senior housing properties including two LeadingAge MA members have been selected to participate as intervention sites in the 3-year Supportive Services Demonstration for Elderly Households in HUD-Assisted Multifamily Housing.
The Implementation Team is working with HUD to finalize the design of the demonstration. That design was partially informed by earlier research that CFAR and The Lewin Group completed in March 2014 for HUD and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In addition to other tasks, the HUD/HHS-supported research identified potential demonstration design options based on case studies and evaluations of housing plus services models, including the Support and Services at Home program.