MapInfo an introduction

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Joint Centre for Scottish Housing Research
European Typology on Homelessness and
Housing Exclusion
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Overview of Presentation

• The NAPs/Inclusion Indicators
• Housing Exclusion Conceptual Model
• Operational and Measurement Issues
• Comparative / EU- level Issues
• Next Steps

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Suggested Primary EU Indicators for Social
Inclusion
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Spheres of Housing Exclusion
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Domains of Housing Exclusion
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ETHOS Definition

• Rough Sleeping
• Night shelter

• Roofless

• Houseless

• Hostel / temporary accommodation
• Womens shelter
• Asylum / immigrants shelters
• Institutional release
• Supported housing

• Insecure Housing

• No tenancy
• Eviction orders
• Violence / threat

• Inadequately Housed

• Temporary / illegal structures
• Overcrowding
• Unfit for habitation

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Factors leading to Homelessness
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more
Central Europe
Southern Europe
Atlantic
H O U S I N G P R O B L E M S
Continental
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Cyprus Malta ??
Nordic Netherlands
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SUPPORT PROBLEMS
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Official Data Sources EU-15
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Issues to be confronted

• Definition
• Missing Data
• Data Sources
• Measurement

• Womens Aid
• Hostel definition
• All countries
• E.g. Evictions
• Hidden homelessness
• Official / NGO
• Hsg/Social/Justice
• Double counting
• Stock/Flow/Prevalence
• Frequency / Regularity

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Developing ETHOS

• Refining the Operational sub-categories
• Identifying data sources and definitions in each
  sub-category by country
• Nomenclature of living situations in each country
• Hostel
• Temporary accommodation
• Transitional / supported accommodation

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Next Steps in Data Collection- ETHOS Categories

• Clarify Policy Uses
• Stock, Flow and Prevalence data
• Possible Indicator (EU / National)
• Make better use of NGO data
• Requires national database of Service Providers
• Flow Data (IT solution)
• Core Variables
• Breakdown by gender, age, ethnicity
• Causes / pathways