UPDATE EU DEVELOPMENT HOMELESSNESS BRX – JUNE 2012

POLICY Calls for more EU action EP, EESC (2011), CoR (2010) PeP meeting (2012) Promise for more EU action Commissioner Andor (2012) Support MS in their efforts to adress homelessness Progress towards more actions Mapping exercise (ongoing) EU & MS EU action plan for next Annual Poverty Convention (Dec) Homelessness Ministers Meeting (2013) Irish Presidency

POLICY TOOLS Agenda 2020 Poverty target NRPs EPAP Flagship Initiative Follow up CC conclusions Quality of homelessness services Increase diversity of stakeholders Social innovation PROGRESS / UEPSCI programme Ca 35 million € per year on social inclusion Actions Mutual learning Research Data collection Social experimentation Monitoring EU networks

FUNDING ERDF Housing for marginalised communities ( ) Housing in framework of deinstitutionalisation ( ) ESF Employment for homeless people ( ) Support for homeless people ( ) Aid for Deprived People Focus on food ( ) Focus on homelessness & beyond food ( ) Civil Protection Programme Focus on disaster relief (now) Homelessness death toll as consequence of natural disaster?! (future)

ACTIONS Mutual learning FEANTSA workplan Transnational projects HFE, Work in Stations, Women rough sleepers,… Research & data collection FEANTSA OBS workplan Migration and homelessness Repossessions Census 2011 Pilots Free movement and homelessness

EVENTS FEANTSA Local strategies (june - BRX) Research (sept - York) Migration (nov - Barcelona) Insitutions OECD/EC – supported housing (nov – Paris) EP – hearing mental health – homelessness (nov – BRX) EC – annual poverty convention (dec – Paris) Homeless Ministers Meeting (jan – BRX)

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