This policy briefing explores the potential for shifting towards housing-led approaches to homelessness in Slovakia, as part of a wider research project commissioned by World Habitat and conducted by the Metropolitan Research Institute and the Budapest Institute for Policy Analysis.
It highlights significant challenges, including the lack of reliable data on homelessness, a system dominated by emergency and temporary responses, and a very limited social housing sector. At the same time, the briefing identifies key opportunities for change. Housing-led models, including Housing First, are gaining traction among practitioners and policymakers, supported by lessons from pilot programmes and the strategic use of EU funding.
The report concludes that increased investment in affordable public housing, stronger regulation of the private rental sector, and reforms to housing benefits and eligibility criteria could create the structural conditions needed to scale up housing-led solutions and effectively end homelessness in Slovakia.
You can access the full country brief for Slovakia here!