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Strasbourg Eurométropole
Housing First was presented in 2017 as a salient element of the French national strategy to fight and reduce homelessness (five-year plan 2018-2022). Already engaged in the fight for adequate and affordable housing, the Strasbourg Eurometropolitan Area immediately rose to the call and began implementing the plan with 23 other local and regional authorities. Our […]
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ANSA – Agence nouvelle des solidarités actives
Agence nouvelle des solidarités actives (Ansa) is a French think-and-do tank in the field of poverty and social exclusion whose aim is to promote evidence-based approaches. We identify promising innovations, set up pilot tests and experiments, support the scale up of effective approaches and seek to share findings about effective innovations. We also support government […]
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WEBINAR: Applying research to reality: A transatlantic discussion
Tim Aubry, Professor at the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa, Aurélie Tinland, Principal investigator – research on psychiatric advance directives at Aix-Marseille Université, and Freek Spinnewijn, Director of FEANTSA discuss how research and evidence for housing-led solutions to homelessness are applied to Housing First programmes and services in Canada, France, and across […]
Read more...Nadyah Abdel Salam
Nadyah is a socio-urbanist and a task officer at GIE La Ville Autrement where she works on the deployment of partnership projects for the homeless in the metropolitan of Lyon within the framework of Housing First. In addition to being a Hoosing First trainer, Nadyah is also working on a thesis in sociology which deals […]
Read more...Problems maintaining collaborative approaches with excluded populations in a randomised control trial: lessons learned implementing Housing First in France
In 2006, an ‘experimental squat’ was set up in an abandoned building in Marseille by a local collective combating homelessness. The squat was envisioned as an alternative to conventional health and social services for individuals experiencing long-term homelessness and severe psychiatric disorders. Based on the lessons learned from the squat, some then joined a larger coalition […]
Read more...Housing First
The report by Nicholas Pleace describes what Housing First is, how it works, explores the evidence base and then discusses the case for the wider use of Housing First in France. http://www.feantsaresearch.org/download/housing_first_pleace3790695452176551843.pdf
Read more...Richard Ferrand confirme la création d’un plan quinquennal pour le “logement d’abord”, souhaité par les associations
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 […]
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Grand Lyon
Grand Lyon is a regional authority gathering 59 municipalities and 1,3 million inhabitants, with a wide range of competences including urbanism, housing, the protection of children and social action. Its mission is to define, outline and implement the Habitat strategy throughout the 59 municipalities under its jurisdiction. This policy aims to provide all households with […]
Read more... Website53ème atelier de la Dihal sur le déploiement du programme « un Chez-soi d’abord »
53rd Dihal (Interdepartmental Delegation to Housing and Access to Housing) Workshop on the deployment of the Housing First program
Read more...Le logement d’abord, et après Bilan et propositions pour la généralisation du logement d’abord en France
Evaluation of Housing First in France which includes recommendations for scaling up.
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EST Métropole Habitat
Est Metropole Habitat (EMH) is a social housing organisation established in 1919 and linked to the City of Lyon (France), with 16.000 dwellings. EMH is member of a group that gathers five companies who work in the housing sector, the GIE la Ville Autrement. This group brings together three social landlords and two NGOs, developing […]
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Fondation Abbé Pierre
Fondation Abbé Pierre for accommodating the underprivileged (FAP), an officially recognised non-profit association on 11th February 1992, is a foundation whose mission is to allow vulnerable populations to have access to decent housing and a dignified life, whatever their resources or social situation. Fondation Abbé Pierre finances and supports associations that fight against substandard housing […]
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Dihal
The Interministerial delegation for housing and access to housing (Dihal) was created in 2010. It is responsible for piloting and implementing the national housing policy for people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless, with the ultimate goal of drastically reducing the number of homeless people in France. In 2017, the French government […]
Read more... WebsiteRapport sur l’état du mal-logement en France 2017
Report on housing conditions in France – 2017
Read more...The Governance of Inclusive Growth – An Overview of Country Initiatives
Achieving inclusive growth relates closely to how governments work and how policies are designed, implemented, delivered and evaluated. This publication presents an overview of country initiatives concerning inclusive growth in 39 OECD member and partner countries. It was prepared in the context of the OECD Public Governance Ministerial Meetings held in Helsinki, Finland, on 28 […]
Read more...Un chez-soi d’abord – Retour sur 6 années d’expérimentation
Report of experimental Housing First programme in four cities in France
Read more...Les Actions Autour du Logement d’Abord en Bourgogne
Report of Housing First in Bourgogne, France.
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