CITY TERRITORIAL DISPARITIES How do we fight them? The city of athens’ perspective

LOW INCOME UNEMPLOYMENT Threshold of relative poverty: 21,4% of Greece’s population / Same for Athens. Athenian extreme poverty rate : 20,6% (highest in Greece by far) Approximately 138,000 residents in Athens are lacking the basic necessities for survival. + approximately 16,000 immigrants and refugees currently located in Greece’s capital city. UNEMPLOYMENT National rates: 24,5%, Attica region: 26,7% with a 50% youth unemployment 75% of unemployed live under the poverty threshold Athens’ ID 670,000 registered residents = Epicentre of Attica Region: 1/2 country’s population

City center decline Concentration of homelessness and drug addiction, Anti-social behavior, Criminality, Expanding gentrification trend. + N-W part = most vulnerable one Income & energetic poverty, Unemployment highest rate: 24% Demographic density (more than 1/3 of the general Athenian population), Majority of immigrants and refugees (in official&unofficial housing schemes).

1ST GENERATION CHALLENGES ANSWERS & Lack of connectivity (public transport to downtown location of social services provision) leading to Exclusion Mobile Units providing home care to elders Streetworking for homeless Social Housing Network Municipal Clinics Network Decentralize by creating Networks & Proximity mobile units

2ND GENERATION CHALLENGES & ANSWERS Integrated Social Services Network Services dissemination & lots of referrals + Lack of Connectivity (data sharing, real time handling individualized & territorial approach) Through One-Stop-Shops (aka SEPs) Connectivity 2.0 Upon The already existing Municipal Clinics Network ESTI@ Project (creation of 2 SEPs) Where? Patissia Municipal Clinic (N-W area) + Solidarity Garrison (downtown Athens) What? Health care Psychosocial support Childcare Legal & employability counseling Who? Consortium (MoA, NGOs, private, partner cities) How much? EaSI funding For how long? 2,5 years When? Right Now!

What’s next? From integration to resiliency Establish and expand the integrative approach Fight chronic stresses Complex & time consuming procedures Twin project in Kypseli (N-W area) + Converting the 5 remaining Municipal Clinics (ITI funding tool) Applying case- management & referral digital system to all municipal services (including SEPs) Long term unemployment by Using SEPs + Central Job Center as social enterprises incubators Blend vulnerable groups Enforcing neighborhood identity & ownership Using Social Reference Procurement

Thank you and keep walking!