Homelessness is becoming an increasingly serious social problem, as evidenced by the growing number of people experiencing homelessness and the consequences of the most extreme form of deprivation and social exclusion. In Croatia, the status of homeless people was “recognised” and regulated only in 2011 by the Social Welfare Act. The paper starts from the right to decent housing as a fundamental human right, analyses the evolution and current state of the social rights of the homeless, starting from the 1990s to more recent legal documents and policies, and critically analyses and interprets the results of previous research concerning the social rights, status and position of people experiencing homeless. It concludes that the social rights are inadequately defined and that care for the homeless is a residual part of social care. It also emphasises the greater need for support in the realisation of the existing social rights of
the homeless, and provides certain recommendations on how to improve social rights and innovate in some aspects, taking into account the international and national legislative framework of policies.
You can read the full paper here (in Croatian).