Archives: Organizations

Housing First Köln (Cologne) is an initiative of the non-profit organization “Vringstreff e.V.”. Vringstreff is a specialized counseling center and drop-in center for homeless people in Cologne, which has been offering counseling and other assistance to people affected by poverty and homelessness since 1996. In 2020, Vringstreff founded the first Housing First project in Cologne. […]

Cymorth Cymru is the representative body for providers of homelessness, housing and support services in Wales. We act as the voice of the sector, influencing the development and implementation of policy, legislation and practice that affects our members and the people they support. We want to be part of a social movement that ends homelessness […]

Paris City Hall : Housing First in the fight against homelessness Faced by a rise in homelessness in the late 90s and early 2000s, the City of Paris decided to implemented an integrated housing-led strategy aimed at preventing and reducing homelessness. Over the past twenty years, the City of Paris has produced 110 000 social […]

Provivienda is a non-profit organization that works for social and residential inclusion across Spain, promoting the right to housing since 1989. Its aim is to address housing needs, especially of social excluded people, promoting the access and maintenance to affordable and adequate dwellings. Provivienda is the housing stock and support provider in Hábitat, a Housing […]

The Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030 is located in Madrid and was created in January 2020 by the current coalition Government. The first ministry with exclusive competences on social affairs was created in 1988. Currently, social affairs are centralized in the Secretary of State of Social Rights. Its mandate includes the following competences: […]

Depaul is a cross-border organisation working in 5 main areas of service provision: 1. Prevention 2. Families & Young People 3. High Support Accommodation 4. Health & Rehabilitation 5. Housing Depaul was established in 2002 in Ireland and 2005 in Northern Ireland. It is now a leading cross-border organisation. Our focus is upon those suffering […]

Homelessness Australia is the national peak body for homelessness in Australia. We provide systemic advocacy for the homelessness sector. We work with a large network of organisations to provide a unified voice when it comes to preventing and responding to homelessness. Our vision is to proactively advocate and promote national policy and action to end […]

At Homeless Network Scotland, we believe homelessness in Scotland can be ended if we act together on what works and what matters. We are a membership organisation with a unique role to help grow the policy and system changes needed to resolve homelessness. And as a network, we: • Connect people and places to drive […]

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 […]

Simon Community Scotland is working to combat the causes and effects of homelessness. Our vision is that everyone should have a safe place to live and access to the support they need. By working and learning together we can drive impact and change, person to person – to transform everyone’s experience of homelessness in Scotland. […]