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Organization: Fondation Abbé Pierre, FEANTSA
Publication Date: 2018
Since 2015, FEANTSA and the Fondation Abbé Pierre have released a yearly Overview of Housing Exclusion in Europe. These annual reports look at the latest Eurostat data (EU-SILC) and assess EU countries' capacity to adequately house their populations.
The 2018 version reveals how millions of Europeans face housing exclusion on a daily basis as well as a dramatic picture of increasing homelessness across most of the EU – in particular amongst child...
Organization: FEANTSA and Fondation Abbé Pierre
Publication Date: 2017
All across Europe, the under 30s have been particularly affected by the budget cuts and austerity policies of the last few years. So-called stay-at-home policies have proliferated in some European countries (the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands), on the pretext that the social welfare systems are too generous to young people and that it is the parents’ responsibility to ensure their child’s transition to independence. Housing dis...
Publication Date: 2017
Editorial
Articles
Joanne Bretherton: Reconsidering Gender in Homelessness
Cecilia von Otter, Olof Backman, Sten-Ake Stenbery & Carin Qvarfordt Eisenstein: Dynamics of Evictions: Results from a Swedish Database
Nikos Kourachanis: Homelessness Policies in Crisis Greece: The Case of the Housing and Reintegration Program
Peter K. Mackie, Ian Thomas & Jennie Bibbings: Homelessness Prevention: Reflecting on a Year of Pioneering Welsh Legisla...
Publication Date: 2016
Women who are homeless are among the most marginalised groups in our society and their numbers, especially among young women, are increasing. For example, in the UK, women made up 26 per cent of people who accessed homelessness services in 2013. It is believed that many more women are “hidden” homeless. This issue of the Homeless in Europe Magazine aims to raise awareness of the problem and contribute to better understanding what is specific abou...
Publication Date: 2016
Content
Editorial
Articles
Housing and Service Interventions for Families Experiencing Homelessness in the United States: An Experimental Evaluation1Marybeth Shinn, Scott R. Brown, Michelle Wood and Daniel Gubits
How Do We Measure Success in Homelessness Services? Critically Assessing the Rise of the Homelessness Outcomes StarGuy Johnson and Nicholas Pleace
Introducing the Housing First Model in Spain: First Results of the Habitat ProgrammeRobert...
Publication Date: 2016
The report is now available for the European context and in 7 additional languages!
Youth homelessness is a pressing issue worldwide that requires urgent attention. To help address the issue, a collaborative group of organizations from Canada and Europe have developed Youth Rights! Right Now! Ending Youth Homelessness: A Human Rights Guide for grounding strategies to end youth homelessness in international human rights law. The guide, based on r...
Publication Date: 2015
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Editorial
Articles
The Policing of a Homeless Shelter: Private Security Patrolling the Border of Eligibility Marja Elsinga
Differential Treatments of Rental Home Seekers According to their Sociodemographic and Economic Status by Real Estate Agencies in BelgiumKatleen Van den Broeck and Kristof Heylen
Pathways through Homelessness in HelsinkiEeva Kostiainen
Parenting within Homelessness: A Qualitative Study on the Situation of Homeless Fa...
Publication Date: 2015
Strategy involves setting goals, determining actions to achieve these goals, and mobilizing resources to implement the actions. If, as FEANTSA believes it should be, the goal of public policy is to reduce and ultimately end homelessness, then a strategy is required.
Strategies to address homelessness exist at different levels. As competence for providing homeless services is often at local level, local strategies play a key role in structuring ho...
Publication Date: 2015
The impact of the global financial crisis on the extent and experience of homelessness was the broad theme of the 9th annual research conference of the European Observatory on Homelessness, held in Warsaw on the 19th of September 2014. A selection of the papers presented are included in this edition of the European Journal of Homelessness (EJH), and collectively they provide a sense of the challenges facing policy makers, service providers and mo...
Publication Date: 2015
Participation of people who have experience of homelessness is paramount and can have outcomes at different levels. Most importantly, participation should always have a positive impact on homeless people. Indeed, individuals can and should receive personal gain or empowerment from being involved through increased confidence, knowledge, skills or awareness. Empowerment, by which we mean enabling homeless people to claim their rights and to achieve...
Publication Date: 2014
Contents
Editorial
Articles
Niels KarstenAre ‘Fair Share’ Policies Fair to the Homeless? A Critical Assessment of Distributive Siting Policies in the Netherlands
József Hegedüs, Vera Horváth and Eszter SomogyiThe Potential of Social Rental Agencies within Social Housing Provision in Post-Socialist Countries: The Case of Hungary
Emma Williamson, Hilary Abrahams, Karen Morgan and Ailsa CameronTracking Homeless Women in Qualitative Longitudinal Rese...
Publication Date: 2014
Housing Homeless People in Europe
At the eighth annual European Research Conference on Homelessness, held in the Alice Salomon Hochschule in Berlin on 20th September 2013, a range of stimulating papers were presented on different aspects of how to move from shelter led to housing led services, and the nature of the supports required to sustain secure occupancy of dwellings for formerly homeless people. The European Journal of Homelessness is deli...
Publication Date: 2014
Social work with homeless people takes many forms, including work in residential, employment, health, education and legal services and social workers’ experiences may differ from service to service and from country to country. Changes in national and European contexts mean that social services for homeless people are changing too, and with them the work of social workers.
This issue of Homeless in Europe magazine explores different issues regardi...
Publication Date: 2014
Communicating about homelessness is important for NGOs and activist groups working towards ending homelessness. The way they present homelessness can help to dispel negative stereotypes that can be a barrier to public interest in the issue but also to political will to change the situations that cause homelessness and keep people in homelessness. It can explain solutions to homelessness, and why they matter, to the people experiencing homelessnes...
Organization: ENHW Newsletter
Publication Date: 2014
The newsletter is published in the framework of the European Network of Homeless Health Workers, which brings together health professionals working with people who are homeless across the EU. It is a multi-disciplinary initiative, aimed at all persons working with homeless people in a health capacity, across all areas of mental and physical health.
Publication Date: 2013
Content
Editorial
Articles Nicholas Pleace and Joanne BrethertonThe Case for Housing First in the European Union: A Critical Evaluation of Concerns about Effectiveness
Liz GosmeThe Europeanisation of Homelessness Policy: Myth or Reality?
Boróka Fehér and Anna BalogiFrom the Forest to Housing: Challenges Faced by Former Rough Sleepers in the Private Rental Market in Hungary
Policy Reviews Isabel BaptistaThe First Portuguese Homelessness Strat...
Publication Date: 2013
Homelessness can be a traumatic experience that has a significant negative impact on individuals’ self-esteem, physical and mental health, wellbeing and support networks. Many approaches to ending homelessness focus on helping people get out of the situation once they become homeless. However, some approaches looks to preventing homelessness occurring in the first place, or avoiding a worsening in a homeless person’s situation.
IN THIS ISSUE
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Publication Date: 2013
Much has been written on the interrelatedness of mental health and homelessness, some arguing that mental health problems lead to homelessness, while others claiming that homelessness is a stress factor which provokes mental ill health. Although the direction of causality is not straightforward, the link clearly shows how mental health cannot be treated in isolation and how its wider social context, e.g. social status, poverty or social relations...
Publication Date: 2013
Free movement of persons is often considered as one of the most important achievements and as a fundamental principle of the European Union. However, free movement of persons has always provoked discussion about the level of rights accommodated for and has always been confronted with Member States that have tried – and still try – to impose restrictions on it or limit it outright, especially when it comes to persons who are not economically activ...
Publication Date: 2013
The image, or images, of homelessness and homeless people in the collective psyche can be different from the way they are considered by professionals working in the field. People with experience of homelessness, the general public, researchers, social workers, journalists, to name but a few, may have very different views of what it means to be homeless and how homelessness should be perceived. The way they talk about homelessness can differ widel...