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Received: 6 April 2020

Accepted: 20 January 2021

First Online: 30 January 2021

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The current study was approved in the UK (by The Ethics Committee of the Centre for Social Policy, an activity within the charity the Warren House Group at Dartington) and in Canada by the Research Ethics Board of St. Michael’s Hospital (REB #:15–009). Consent to participate for this study was not applicable as this is a secondary data analysis of an anonymised data set from the Housing First trial in Canada known as At Home/Chez Soi.The At Home/Chez Soi trial was conducted in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, and Moncton, with data collection from October 2009 to June 2013. The study was approved by 11 research ethics boards reported in the study protocol by Goering, Streiner, Adair, Aubry, Barker et al., (2011). The At Home/Chez Soi trial protocol: a pragmatic, multi-site, randomised controlled trial of a Housing First intervention for homeless individuals with mental illness in five Canadian cities. <i>BMJ open. 2011; 1(2): e000323</i>. Available from: doi: ExternalRef removed. This study has been registered with the International Standard Randomised Control Trial Number Register and assigned ISRCTN42520374.

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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.