This symposium will provide an opportunity for EU-wide stakeholders, policymakers, and other professionals working in this sector to discuss the latest trends in and drivers of homelessness across Europe, examine the merits of current policies aimed at tackling Europe’s escalating homelessness crisis, and develop comprehensive strategies designed to end homelessness for good. #
Programme
- Learn about and assess current trends and drivers of homelessness across Europe
- Examine the successes and failures of EU policies, programs and initiatives designed to tackle homelessness
- Exchange views on what the internationally agreed definition of homelessness and associated statistical definitions and data collection methods should be and how these should be established
- Develop strategies that go beyond managing homelessness, but on ending it
- Examine the role that taking a housing-led, Housing First approach can play in tackling homelessness
- Understand the impact of taking a punitive and criminalising response to homelessness
- Discuss how to ensure that the needs of homeless people are met in policymaking and service delivery, including with regard to access to health and other social services
- Assess how EU policymakers, in concert with EU structural and investment funds, can help shape and support national and regional homelessness strategies in such a way as to embed the right to housing across the continent
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