The book has described the main models of supported housing in Britain and Sweden for the groups taken as examples, and has evaluated these models using a framework built on concepts of well-being and the affordances of home and neighbourhood. Some conclusions that relate to older people, homeless people, and people with disabilities have been reached in the individual chapters. The aim in this final chapter is to draw some general conclusions on the wider issues. The chapter begins with a comparison of Britain and Sweden. The comparative part of the book started in Chapter Five with a discussion of welfare regimes and the position of the two countries in this categorisation. This section will reflect on the welfare regimes approach and comment on the position and trajectories of the two countries in the light of the evidence presented in the book.

The chapter continues with a discussion of the discourses that are associated with policy and provision, and will reflect on similarities and differences between the two countries. Also, the chapter will focus on examples showing the impact of discourse in shaping policy and provision, and the agents that attempt to influence this. The section will attempt to answer some questions on the existence of particular forms of provision. For example, why have extra-care housing and foyers been adopted in Britain, despite being expensive forms of provision that do not maximise the well-being of residents? In Sweden, the continuance of the staircase model as the cornerstone of provision for homeless people is discussed. Although it is under threat from the Housing First approach, it is still the predominant form of supported housing provision for homeless people.

The focus of the chapter then moves on to the well-being framework that is used in the book to evaluate forms of supported housing. This section will reflect on the usefulness of this framework and its future application.

The penultimate section reflects on the evaluation of the different models of supported housing. In the individual chapters, conclusions have been reached on appropriate forms of supported housing for the people considered there. In this section, the focus is on consideration of the value of the general models.