Sozialpolitik und Wohnungslosenhilfe: Ein europaischer Diskurs

Contribution FEANTSA to BAWO Fachtagung 2015 Bregenz – 13/5

Homelessness – data & trends

Homelessness UP Substantial increases

Except FI, Scot

Double digits FR, Eng, EL, ...

Also in strong welfare states DK

Homelessness CHANGES Youth Migration

3rd country / internal EU Family

Austerity Increasing demand and/or cuts

Eng Refocus on emergency intervention

Corporatistic reaction… Gate keeping

Internal dynamics Increased awareness of what work… Professionalisation

Inevitable cycle of service development?! Grow, Improve, Diversify, Inefficiency, Downscaling

(Housing-led/first) DK

Homeless services - challenges

Homeless policies – good & bad

Strategic interventions ½ EU members states Housing-led/first Evidence-base Underpinned by stats

Criminalisation Local level

EU – difficult political context

EC – initiator Juncker

Big on big, small on small Poverty is small

Thyssen Employment only priority (for the moment...)

EP Continued to be mobilised on social

Homelessness priority issue of concern But ignored by EC on social

Council EPSCO is marginalised

Little interest in poverty

EU – few concrete recent actions

EC Guidance on homelessness policies (2013) – voluntary...

Basic banking services directive (2014) – obligatory ...

Study on evictions/repossessions & homelessness (2015) – informative...

Retrospective data on homelessness by Eurostat (2017) – maybe ...

EU – homeless in bigger files

Revision EU2020 Homelessness in EU poverty target (unlikely...)

Mobility package Free movement & homelessness (quite

unlikely...) EU Semester

CSR on homelessness (unlikely...) Migration package

Regularisation homeless undocumented (very unlikely...)

EU – big funding somewhere...

ESF 20% poverty Examples of funding for homeless services...

ERDF Social & health infra in frame DI

FEAD More than food Examples of material aid for homeless...

BUT Lobbying @ national/regional level !! Watch mid-term review 2017

New opportunities...

EU – few interesting calls

For Public authorities as lead Social experimentation Effective social policy change

For NGOs & partners as lead Difficult

Tenders rather than calls... Erasmus+

Easy...

FEANTSA – key achievements 2014

Context 200.000 € structural cut

Litigation CoE Netherlands

Unconditional access to night shelter (decided) Ireland

Quality social housing (pending) Creation FEANTSA youth network

Young professionals in homeless sector Strong link to new EP

FEANTSA “friends“ Too few Austrians...

Data/trends homelessness OBS research

FEANTSA priorities 2015 Housing First

Training manual State of Housing Exclusion Report

(new...) Exploiting transnational stats

Conferences Annual in Paris

19 June / some place left (400+) Research in Dublin

25 Sept Free movement & homelessness

Provoke EU action...

Opportunities 4 Austria in 2016 & later

FEANTSA Habitact peer reviews

Austrian city as host ... Annual conference of FEANTSA

In Austria ... Research

Austrian input... EU project

Led by BAWO (member) with support FEANTSA EU

Austrian Presidency of EU 2019 Trio with RO & FI Homelessness on agenda ...

Lobbying Austrian key ppl in EU social area SPC – Johan Stefanits, Brigit Zarfel ENSP – Marcel Fink (Institute Advanced Studies) Eurocties – Haupl in ExCo

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