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Independent evaluation of the Rock Trust’s Housing First for Youth (HF4Y) pilot project in West Lothian finds that engagement with the project directly resulted in positive changes to the lives of the young people using the service over a two-year pilot period. The Rock Trust pilot project is the first HF4Y service set up […] Read more...
Working in cooperation with our partners in Canada, Ireland, Scotland and The Netherlands, the Hub is delighted to announce the publication of THIS Is Housing First for Youth – Europe – a programme model guide for starting up and running HF4Y in Europe. Over the past several years the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness has […] Read more...
The Canadian Homeless Hub has released a new newsletter with some useful COVID-19 resources, including on Harm Reduction. Contents include: New Webinar 28 April: Harm Reduction Policies and Interventions During COVID-19 COVID-19 Harm Reduction Resources Protecting Worker Well-Being in the Homeless Serving Sector Supporting Survivors’ Access to Substance Use Disorder and Mental Health Services During […] Read more...
The Housing First Europe Hub acknowledges that research on Housing First can benefit decision makers and practitioners and that it is important to monitor and conduct research on how systems respond to the changes in the homelessness policies and services. To promote interest among early career researchers and the research community in general about the Housing First model […] Read more...
We’re delighted to announce that one of our Associate members, LIMOR, has taken the initiative to translate the Housing First Guide into the Dutch context. The guide has been produced with support from the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport and the Housing First Europe Hub. The guide provides an introduction to Housing First, […] Read more...
On World Homelessness Day, the Housing First Europe Hub releases the report from its first ever Europe-wide study of the Housing First model, compiling data from 19 countries. Evidence from the study shows that the Housing First model is effective, but needs more political support to increase its impact across Europe. As opposed to traditional […] Read more...
Congratulations to Susana Batle, who received the 2019 Housing First Early Career Researcher Award in recognition of her paper: “Ethical Relation and Control: Exploring Limits in Private Sphere of Home”. The paper was co-authored by Jezabel Cartoixà; Marta Llobet and Joan Uribe, and will appear as an article in an upcoming edition of the European […] Read more...
The Housing First Europe Hub acknowledges that research on Housing First can benefit decision makers and practitioners and that it is important to monitor and conduct research on how systems respond to the changes in the homelessness policies and services. Aiming at promoting the interest among early career researchers and the research community in […] Read more...
Winter is here and shelters are opening their doors, there is a lot of compassion and goodwill in the general public and a real overflow of volunteers to help homeless people. But after Christmas many homeless people face the hard reality of the streets again and keep asking: For how long? One may need shelter […] Read more...
Le gouvernement fédéral veut intégrer le droit au logement dans la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés avant les prochaines élections. Ce droit est incorporé dans la législation de plusieurs autres pays. Le Canada devrait-il en tirer certaines leçons? The Canadian federal government seeks to include the right to housing in the Charter of Rights […] Read more...
Housing First Europe Hub is seeking an experienced contractor with knowledge of the Housing First model in order to conduct a transnational research aiming at understanding the scale of Housing First delivery and political commitment with the model across Europe (EU and EFTA countries). The result of the research (as a report) will provide an […] Read more...
Research on Housing First can benefit decision makers and practitioners. It is also important to monitor and conduct research on how systems respond to the changes in the homelessness policies and services. Aiming at promoting the interest among early career researchers and the research community in general about the Housing First model across Europe, the […] Read more...
A podcast on how to tackle Britain’s homelessness crisis. https://podtail.com/podcast/reasons-to-be-cheerful-with-ed-miliband-and-geoff-/episode-26-housing-first-tackling-britain-s-homele/ Read more...
Professor Sarah Johnsen shares her views on what is it about Housing First that fosters such positive housing (and other) outcomes for a group who have traditionally been poorly served by mainstream provision? https://i-sphere.org/2018/03/19/why-does-housing-first-work/ Read more...
The Housing First Europe Hub organized an international seminar in February in Helsinki for experts and civil servants working on housing and social issues. The aim of the event was to discuss and share information on how to solve homelessness. Finnish Housing First on the focus The seminar participants gained a broad overview of the […] Read more...
"A Home of Your Own" is a new book on Finnish Housing First principle Read more...
As the concept of Housing First becomes more popular, it is at times being misunderstood. Jo Prestidge from the Homeless Link explains why we have to get it right to create real change for those that need it. http://www.homeless.org.uk/connect/blogs/2017/oct/03/housing-first-is-unique-%E2%80%93-let%E2%80%99s-do-it-right Read more...
Edinburgh-based youth homelessness charity, Rock Trust, has launched the UK’s first ever Housing First for Youth project in West Lothian. http://www.scottishhousingnews.com/17582/first-youth-housing-first-project-launched-in-the-uk/ Read more...
Focus Ireland has launched a hard-hitting short film to highlight the terrible crisis of young people becoming homeless when leaving state care at 18. http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/discover/focus-irelands-hard-hitting-video-on-youth-homelessness-has-made-a-big-impact-on-social-media-805867.html Read more...
“Social housing is as much about ‘social’ as it is about housing and real estates”, says Juha Kaakinen, the CEO of the Y-Foundation. Read more...
Homeless Link has published a set of guidelines for Housing First. The Housing First England programme is in the latter half of its second year and is already making an impact. Over 30 services are fully operational in England, and Homeless Link is providing advice and support to these providers in several ways. Read more...
The study is the most comprehensive homelessness reform agenda for a city in England to date, and offers a complete system shift with housing first and housing led approaches that would transform the prospects of current and future homeless populations. The study aimed to test the feasibility of implementing Housing First at scale within the Liverpool […] Read more...
Par Elodie Raitière Le ministre de la Cohésion des territoires, Richard Ferrand, a confirmé mardi 6 juin 2017 qu’un “plan quinquennal pour le logement d’abord” serait lancé. Lors d’une table ronde avec une quinzaine d’acteurs associatifs, il a rappelé qu’il s’agissait d’une promesse faite par le candidat Emmanuel Macron devant la Fondation Abbé Pierre le […] Read more...
53rd Dihal (Interdepartmental Delegation to Housing and Access to Housing) Workshop on the deployment of the Housing First program Read more...
Making the Shift project in Canada focuses on youth homelessness by prevention and Housing First Read more...
#HomelessZero non è uno slogan. La campagna di sensibilizzazione promossa da fio.PSD – Federazione italiana organismi persone senza dimora con il patrocinio del Ministero del lavoro e delle politiche sociali, è uno dei tanti modi utilizzati per veicolare una serie di azioni concrete volte a contrastare la grave emarginazione adulta e delle persone senza dimora. Read more...
Blog post, Matt Downie from The Crises. The Centre for Social Justice has presented a plan to end homelessness Read more...
The British Government is considering to adopt Housing First -strategy to help homeless addicts. Read more...
News article of successful homelessness policy in Medicine Hat, Canada Read more...
Description of Finnish approach to homelessness and how this could be applied to Ireland Read more...