Country: Finland

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    Name: Pilvi Azeem

    Y-Säätiö/Y-Foundation

    Country: Finland
    Languages: EnglishFinnish

    Pilvi’s first experience working with people experiencing homelessness was in Scotland year 2005 where she worked as an assertive outreach worker for over two years, learning first-hand about people...

    • The Housing Finance and Development Centre of Finland (ARA)

    The Housing Finance and Development Centre of Finland (ARA) is a government agency operating under the Ministry of Environment. Our agency was established in 1949 to solve post-war housing shortage in Finland. Since then, we have subsidized over 1 million new homes in Finland (around 1/3 of all housing production). (https://www.ara.fi/en-US/About_ARA/ARA_implements_Finlands_housing_policy(843)) Nowadays we are concentrating […]

  • Näyttökuva 2022-5-25 kello 13.55.16

    Women and homelessness – Churchill Fellowship findings webinar

    This webinar is a discussion exploring how the approaches and models in Canada, Finland and Sweden in preventing and tackling women’s homelessness. https://www.homeless.org.uk/Churchill_Fellowship_findings_webinar

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    Category: | HomelessnessPreventionWomen
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    The Action Plan for Preventing Homelessness in Finland 2016-2019: The Culmination of an Integrated Strategy to End Homelessness?

    The 2016-2019 Action Plan for Preventing Homelessness in Finland is the third stage of the implementation of an integrated homelessness strategy, which began in 2008. This review by Nicholas...

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    Category: | Housing FirstPrevention
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    The Finnish Homelessness Strategy – An International Review

    This international review covers the whole of the Finnish programme to reduce long-term homelessness implemented during 2008–2011 and 2012–2015, Paavo I and Paavo II. The review looks into the programme...

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    Category: | EvaluationHousing First
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    Finland shows example in the fight against homelessness

    “Social housing is as much about ‘social’ as it is about housing and real estates”, says Juha Kaakinen, the CEO of the Y-Foundation.

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    Category: Advocacy| HomelessnessHousing First
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    Mortality and causes of death among homeless in Finland: a 10-year follow-up study

    This paper presents the results of a research examining the overall and cause-specific mortality among homeless men in Helsinki and the associations of social background and health service use...

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    Category: | Homelessness

  • Ted Talk – Juha Kaakinen – Housing First in Finland

    This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Juha Kaakinen describes the main features of the Housing First concept. He also tries...

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