Table 6.

Reliability of housing first dimensions before and after elimination of items with negative item-total correlations

Dimension	Cronbach’s alpha	Cronbach’s alpha
	(with original 29 items)	(with final 24 items)
I. Human resources (structure and composition)	0.39	0.39
II. Program boundaries	0.17	0.05
III. Flexible policies	0.66	0.67
IV. Nature of social services	0.35	0.35
V. Nature of housing and housing services	0.26	0.38
Overall	0.68	0.75