Enhanced Housing Placement Assistance

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Housing Problems; HIV/AIDS
• Interventions: Other: Standard housing placement assistance; Other: Enhanced housing placement assistance

• Registration Number: NCT03334825
• Lead Sponsor: New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Brief Summary

Randomized controlled trial of housing placement assistance for homeless persons with HIV

Detailed Description

Approximately 800 persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) reside in HIV emergency single-room-occupancy (SRO) hotels in New York City and do not have the ability to secure permanent housing on their own. The study evaluated a pilot program which fast-tracked PLWHA from HIV emergency SRO hotels into permanent housing. The Enhanced Housing Placement Assistance (EHPA) program had three components: 1) active recruitment of emergency SRO hotel residents with high need for housing; 2) assistance in the rapid (fast-track) acquisition of permanent housing; and 3) participation in a 12-month support services program designed to prevent PLWHA from relapsing into homelessness, with services focused on increasing clients' capacity to live independently and maintain housing stability. Participants were randomly assigned to either 1) EHPA or 2) usual care, which included standard connections to services and housing programs offered by the New York City HIV/AIDS Services Administration (HASA), Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA), or Ryan White services, and were followed over twelve months using a questionnaire developed with significant input from the target population of PLWHA residing in emergency SRO hotels.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2012-04-01
• Primary Completion: 2017-07-31
• Study Completion: 2017-07-31
• Study First Submitted: 2017-11-03
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-11-03
• Study First Posted: 2017-11-07
• Results First Submitted: 2017-11-15
• Status Verified: 2018-09
• Results First Submitted QC: 2018-09-06
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-09-06
• Results First Posted: 2019-02-08
• Last Update Posted: 2019-02-08

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 236

Inclusion Criteria

• Person living with HIV in New York City
• Residing in an New York City HASA single-adult single-room-occupancy (SRO) hotel

Exclusion Criteria

• Inability to provide informed consent
• Inability to complete survey in English or Spanish

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Standard housing placement assistance	Standard housing placement assistance	-
Enhanced housing placement assistance	Enhanced housing placement assistance	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of Participants With Placement in Permanent Housing	12 months post-enrollment	supportive housing, rental assistance, other non-emergency housing, etc.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of Participants With Engagement in HIV Care	12 months post-enrollment	any reported HIV viral load (VL) or CD4 test
Number of Participants With HIV Viral Suppression	12 months post-enrollment	Last viral load is under 200 copies/mL