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Abstract：
In England, provision of temporary accommodation for people experiencing homelessness has often entailed using traditional construction approaches to deliver housing. However, recent experiments are using modular homes to provide temporary accommodation, accompanied by support services for people experiencing homelessness. Given the early nature of these trials, it is unclear what impacts these modular homes have on their occupants and how these projects in turn impact surrounding residents and businesses. We present a case study of the first modular homes for people experiencing homelessness in Cambridge, England, drawing on longitudinal interviews with the six residents occupying these homes. We found that the physical features of the homes, coupled with wrap-around support services, yielded positive short- and mid-term outcomes for occupants, including improved management of their substance use and money, skills development and readiness for employment, social relations, and a burgeoning sense of community, safety, and security. These positive outcomes have spurred wider interest, including the incorporation of modular homes as alternative temporary accommodation in the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy of Cambridge City Council, alongside a growing research interest in modular homes and other new schemes by the national government. We argue for further empirical studies of the impacts of different modular home projects, including those that admit more diverse resident cohorts and offer different accommodation types to establish a clear methodology for future modular homes projects in England and beyond.
摘要：
在英国,为无家可归的人提供临时住所通常需要使用传统的建筑方法来提供住房。然而,最近的实验是使用模块化住宅来提供临时住宿，伴随着为无家可归的人提供支持服务。鉴于这些试验的早期性质，目前还不清楚这些模块化住宅对居住者有什么影响，以及这些项目如何反过来影响周围的居民和企业。我们为剑桥无家可归的人们提供了第一个模块化房屋的案例研究，英格兰,根据对占用这些房屋的六名居民的纵向采访。我们发现房屋的物理特征，加上环绕支持服务，为居住者带来了积极的短期和中期结果，包括改善对药物使用和资金的管理，技能发展和就业准备，社会关系,和新兴的社区意识，安全,和安全。这些积极的结果激发了更广泛的兴趣，包括将模块化房屋作为替代临时住所纳入剑桥市议会的《无家可归和艰难睡眠战略》中，随着国家政府对模块化住宅和其他新计划的研究兴趣与日俱增。我们主张对不同模块化家庭项目的影响进行进一步的实证研究，包括那些承认更多样化的居民群体，并提供不同的住宿类型，为英格兰及其他地区未来的模块化住宅项目建立明确的方法。
