MapInfo an introduction

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Social exclusion and homelessness in
Europe European policies and strategies
Seminar for NADEJE Prague 15th March 2006
Joint Centre for Scottish Housing Research
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Overview of Presentation

• EU Social Inclusion Strategy
• Homelessness Improving Knowledge
• ETHOS conceptual model
• FEANTSA Toolkit

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Social Inclusion Strategy

• To implement policies which aim to
• Provide ACCESS FOR ALL TO DECENT AND SANITARY
  HOUSING
• Prevent life crisis - HOMELESSNESS
• Joint Inclusion Report (2005 2007)
• Developing more integrated approaches to tackling
  homelessness
• Council of Ministers of Social Affairs
• Treatment of homelessness one of 6 Priorities

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Social Inclusion Objectives

• Access to housing
• Vulnerable Groups
• Mobilise all actors

• Decent
• Affordable
• Young (old)
• Prison discharge
• Domestic violence
• Mental Health
• Addiction
• Debt
• Asylum / refugees
• National / Regional / Local
• Housing / Health / Social
• Public / NGO

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Community Action Programme

• Improving Knowledge
• identification of different types of homelessness
• measurement of homelessness
• Developing integrated policy approaches
• Comprehensive
• Multi-dimensional
• Rights based
• Involvement of all relevant authorities and
  actors
• Political commitment
• Multi-agency working

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NAPs/Inclusion - Review

• Identification of key problems
• Translate into effective policies and action
• Set out specific targets
• Periodic assessment
• monitoring progress /assessment of impact
• enhance timetables and relevance of data

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Factors leading to Homelessness
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Official Data Sources EU-15
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Improving Knowledge

• European Typology of Homelessness and Housing
  Exclusion - ETHOS
• 1. Rooflessness
• 2. Houselessness
• 3. Living in insecure housing
• 4. Living in inadequate housing.
• This definition suggests
• A continuum of situations
• Homelessness is not a static problem but a
  process
• Homelessness is not limited to physical housing
  problems.

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Meaning of Home / Homelessness
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Roofless Category

• PRESENTATION OF ETHOS

Physical domain
Legal domain
Social domain
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Houseless Category
Physical domain
Legal domain
Social domain
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Insecure Housing
Physical domain
Legal domain
Social domain
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Inadequate Housing
Physical domain
Legal domain
Social domain
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FEANTSA Toolkit

• Evidence based
• Comprehensive
• Multi-dimensional
• Rights-based
• Statutory

• Research / Data
• Emergency
• Integration
• Prevention
• Inter-departmental
• Inter-agency
• Right to housing
• Legislation

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FEANTSA - Toolkit

• Participatory
• Sustainable
• Needs-based
• Realistic objectives
• Local delivery

• All actors
• Homeless people
• Funding
• Changing Profiles
• Targets
• Public / NGO