Homelessness in the EU
New opportunities & some focus on quality
FEANTSA contribution
SAD Conference BEZDOMOVEC - KDO TO JE?
13 Sept 2011 – Brno
Favourable context: Support of EU Institutions
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Joint Report EPSCO Council 2010
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National/regional strategies
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Targets
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Prevention, quality & time of services
Proper governance
Housing-led
Proper data & evidence
New trends
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Migration
Written Declarations & Resolution EP 2008 & 2010
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EU strategy
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End rough sleeping 2015
Emergency accommodation only for emergencies
Transitional accommodation only for reintegration
No homeless after discharge
No homeless in transition to adulthood
Favourable context:Support of EU Institutions (2)
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Own initiative report of COR & EESC
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EU strategy
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European Council
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Final Declaration EY2010
Agenda2020
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Homelessness priority for future EU inclusion policies
Public interventions Commissioner Andor
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Structural Funds !
More ambition on homelessness
Consensus Conference of EU Presidency (BE)
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EU strategy
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Steering group
Key elements
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Research
Monitoring progress
Mutual learning
Social innovation
Favourable context: Interest from MS
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Agenda 2020
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Inclusion target
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20 million out of poverty
National Reform Programmes
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Little space for inclusion BUT important for agenda setting
12 countries mention homelessness as a specific problem that requires
urgent policy intervention.
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some refer to the need for a specific strategy (France, Luxembourg, Finland, Bulgaria,
Portugal, and Belgium);
some consider homeless people as a specific target of their employment and/or housing
policies (UK, Spain, Poland)
some see homeless people as specific target group of social inclusion policies (Ireland,
Romania, Greece).
some raise the need for targeting and the need to focus on the most excluded/extreme
poverty (such as Slovenia, Italy).
some have hardly anything on social inclusion and therefore also nothing on
homelessness (such as Czech Rep).
some have nothing on homelessness in spite of their good policies and transnational work
on homelessness (Sweden, Austria, Germany, and Denmark).
EU focus on delivery: Good reason for hope…
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EPAP – concrete measures
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Follow up CC
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EU quality framework for homeless services
Wider partnership with stakeholders
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4 billion euro!
Housing of marginalised communities
Social innovation
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Beyond FEANTSA
Promote use of ERDF
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EU strategy…
Housing-led / Housing first
Words to action
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!! Pressure on European Commission !!
Conclusions
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Increased potential
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Access to EU funding
Political role of EU
Increasing knowledge
(EU legislation)
Quality of Homeless Services: FEANTSA
annual theme
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Why?
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Public procurement
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Gradual elimination of large hostels
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Alternatives
Housing first
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What basis for allocation of public funding?
Role of homeless hostels
End of staircase approach?
European report & conference
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Report on basis of national input
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Analysis & Recommendations
Dec 2011
Conference
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21 Oct – LUX
Quality of homeless services: Potential
EU action
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EU voluntary quality framework
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Bench marking
EU funds
EU quality of social services call
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January 2012
Transnational projects
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Agenda 2020 - Skill gaps in social services
 Training of homeless services staff
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EQUASS system
Uni & social work schools
Cedefop
Agenda 2020 - Social innovation
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Floating support
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Social experimentation project
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Thank you for listening
Questions….