FEANTSA, the European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless is an umbrella of not-for-profit organisations which participate in or contribute to the fight against homelessness in Europe. It is the only major European network that focuses exclusively on homelessness at European level.
FEANTSA's objective is to prevent and alleviate the poverty and social exclusion of people threatened by or living in homelessness, by encouraging and facilitating the co-operation of all relevant actors fighting homelessness in Europe.
Our website is a one-stop resource for information on homelessness in Europe, giving information on the scope and nature of homelessness in all European countries, as well as policy and practices across the continent.
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European Research Conference, 17 September 2010, Budapest - Call for Papers
FEANTSA’s European Observatory on Homelessness, the European Network for Housing Research Working Group on Welfare Policy, Homelessness and Social Exclusion and the Metropolitan Research Institute Budapest, are pleased to announce the 5th Annual Research Conference on Homelessness in Europe. The key theme for this year's Conference is Understanding Homelessness and Housing Exclusion in the New European Context. The conference will take place in Budapest on 17 September 2010.
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In cooperation with Projekt UDENFOR, Copenhagen, 23 October 2009 |
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FEANTSA's European Observatory on Homelessness in collaboration with the European Network of Housing Research Working Group on Welfare Policy, Homelessness and Social Exclusion organised the 4th Annual Research Conference, on the theme of 'Homelessness and Poverty' which took place in Paris on Friday, 18th September 2009. The presentations are available here
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Latest publications
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European Report 2008: the role of housing in pathways into and out of homelessness
This European Report presents the main findings from national reports of 18 EU countries. It is currently available in English, French and Spanish. |
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'In my Caravan, I feel like Superman'
FEANTSA has recently published a volume of essays in honour of Henk Meert, one of the coordinators of FEANTSA's European Observatory on Homelessness and who passed away in 2006.
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 | The FEANTSA Flash for January 2010 is now available online! [02/02/2010]
You can read the Flash in the News section. » Details |
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| Europe will not deliver for people living in extreme poverty [13/01/2010]
FEANTSA's comments on the EU 2020 strategy |
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| Empowering Ways of Working: Empowerment for people using homeless services in Europe [27/10/2009]
This paper aims to provide a better understanding of emppowerment in homeless services. Why is it important to think about empowerment? What does it mean to work in an empowering way? What are the challenges? |
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| Homelessness measurement CHECKLIST [12/10/2009]
This is a Checklist of items to consider when measuring homelessness, supported by national examples. It is intended to give an overview of existing initiatives, definitions, variables and methods used to measure homelessness in Europe. |
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» More Reports |
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| The European Journal of Homelessness, Volume 2, December 2008 & Volume 1 December 2007 [2008]
The European Journal of Homelessness provides a critical analysis of policy and practice on homelessness in Europe for policy makers, practitioners, researchers and academics. The aim is to stimulate debate on homelessness and housing exclusion at the European level and to facilitate the development of a stronger evidential base for policy development and innovation. The journal seeks to give international exposure to significant national, regional and local developments and to provide a forum for comparative analysis of policy and practice in preventing and tackling homelessness in Europe. The journal will also assess the lessons for Europe which can be derived from policy, practice and research from elsewhere.
The Journal can be downloaded from FEANTSA's Research website www.feantsaresearch.org or ordered from the FEANTSA bookshop.
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| The changing role of service provision: Barriers of access to health services for homeless people [2006]
This paper examines the approaches adopted to meet the health needs of homeless people in Europe. The focus is on barriers of access to health care and the nature of health interventions. The paper draws upon evidence from seven EU countries and aims to describe the different approaches in their national context as well as to draw comparative lessons from the evidence. |
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| The changing role of the state: Homelessness and exclusion: regulating public space [2006]
The report consists on three parts and starts by charting the background to what the authors refer to as the ‘regulation of urban space’. In the second part, they look at the evidence from across Europe and especially from the case study countries - Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, and Sweden. In the third part variety of explanations are considered for the
imposition of restricted access during the present period.
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» More Research
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Over the past 10 years, the FEANTSA European Observatory on Homelessness has
produced a series of books covering a range of themes related to
homelessness. You can find more information on the books available for
purchase in the "FEANTSA Bookshop"
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