• New Horizons in Housing First – HF Europe Hub Conference 2024 – Dublin

    About the Conference The Housing First Europe Hub Conference is an essential gathering for experts, practitioners, and stakeholders dedicated to advancing the Housing First model across Europe. This year’s...

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  • FEANTSA Forum 2024 – Vienna

    From June 17th to 18th, stakeholders combating homelessness throughout Europe convened in Vienna for the 2024 FEANTSA Forum. Hosted by FEANTSA, the European Federation of National Organisations Working with...

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  • Transforming Homelessness Solutions in Spain: Community-Centred Approaches, Social Policy Transformation, and Deinstitutionalisation

    The opportunity presented by the Spanish Recovery, Transformation and Resilience fund in the framework of the Next Generation EU Funds included among its lever policies an initiative called a...

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  • WHAT ABOUT ME? – The first Housing First pilot project in Croatia

    Croatia is a nation of property owners, with a very small social rental sector in major cities and without a national requirement to provide general social housing. According to...

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  • “arriving home“ – How strategic alliances boost Housing First in Austria- Emine Özkan, Gerhard Schützinger

    Out of a state-funded project aimed at minimizing the rise of homelessness during current crises, Austrian NGOs have established a model with the potential to end homelessness in the...

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  • Systems Change: Housing First and the Criminal Justice System – Lindsay Mesa

    What does it take to change? One thing I know about working to end homelessness and institutionalization is that it requires a particular dance of steadfast, unwavering commitment and...

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  • Working together to secure the future of Housing First across Europe – Alex Smith

    As Housing First continues to gain traction as a key part of the solution to end homelessness, we must think about scale-up and development at a national level. Homeless...

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  • Upskilling professionals to help end homelessness: introducing the new Housing First diploma in the Netherlands

    In January 2023, we launched the first cohort of a new Housing First diploma course for professionals, based at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. The diploma offers an intensive,...

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  • More courage is needed to upscale Housing First worldwide – Juha Kahila

    “International statistics on homelessness are grim. What is needed now is more courage to try different housing solutions and the ability to think outside the box.” – Juha Kahila...

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  • “Housing First – one or many?” by Juha Kaakinen

    Since 2008, the Housing First principle has been the cornerstone of Finnish strategy and policy to end homelessness. In Finland, Housing First is first and foremost a systemic model,...

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