e-module Chapter 6: Homelessness

Topic outline

• General
  

  General

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  • E-Module Chapter 6: Homelessness Page
• Consolidating Knowledge
  

  Consolidating Knowledge

  • Key Concepts Interactive Content

    In this chapter, we introduced you to multiple topics related to homelessness in Europe. Check your understanding of the content using this task.

  • Reflection Task on Homelessness Page

    In this chapter, we discussed the complex relationship between (forced) migration and housing. Now, take a more detailed look at the region or city you live in.
    

  • Reflection Task. Synonyms of Homelessnes Page
• Listening In
  

  Listening In

  • External Podcast: Homelessness in the US URL

    The 99% Invisible podcast's five episode mini-series "According to need" addresses homelessness in the United States. Episode 3 focuses specifically on the Housing First approach.
    

  • PusH Podcast - Episode 9 Nienke Boesveldt Interactive Content

    In this episode, we discuss the successful Finnish method for addressing homelessness with Dr. Nienke Boesveld from the University of Amsterdam. We consider how other European countries can incorporate these strategies and why the complexity of the issue is often used as an excuse for inaction on the part of governing bodies.
    

• Getting Active
  

  Getting Active

  • Group Activity. Different Types of Homelessness Page

    In this activity, you will learn more about different types of homelessness, deepen your knowledge by doing individual research on the living conditions and personal challenges of these types and understand structural conditions by comparing and discussing cases with other students.

  • Research Task. Homelessness and Urban Design Page

    In this research activity you will learn about hostile architecture and explore the public space of your city. Can you imagine a city designed to support homeless people?

  • Writing Task / Group Work. The Right to Housing Page

    In this task, which can be done in a group or individually, you will reflect on adequate housing and research your local legislative framework in regards to the right to housing.

  • Group Work. Statements about Homelessness Page
  • Research Activity. Images of Homelessness. Page
  • Research Task. Housing First and Local Strategies to Avoid Homelessness Page
• Digging Deeper
  

  Digging Deeper

  • Further Reading: Improving Health and Wellbeing. Page

    This review-article identifies, appraises, and synthesise available evidence on the benefits and cost-effectiveness of interventions to improve the health and social outcomes of people experiencing homelessness.
    
    

  • Further Reading: Accumulated Homelessness: Analysing Protracted Displacement along Eritreans’ Life Histories File

    This article from the Journal of Refugee Studies takes a multidimensional and multiscalar approach to homelessness among refugees in Europe by analyzing the life histories of two Eritrean men living in Italy and The Netherlands.

  • Video. Rough Sleepers in the UK URL

    This video interviews two rough sleepers in the UK and gives information on the recent UK's homelessness crisis.

  • Case Study. Housing First in Finnland. Page
  • Further Reading. 'Fighting homelessness and housing exclusion in Europe' (European Social Policy Network): URL

    This Report produced by the European Social Policy Network (ESPN) shows that fighting against homelessness and housing exclusion remains a key challenge. It needs to be addressed by building strategic collaborative frameworks, strengthening evidence-based policies, providing adequate funding and assessing existing measures.
    

  • Homepage. FEANTSA - The European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless: URL

    Check this homepage to find out more about the organisation, that created one of the homelessness typologies discussed in chapter 6.

  • Housing First in Finland. File
  • Homepage. Project PRODEC. Protecting the Rights of Destitute Mobile Citizens. URL

    In the PRODEC project, FEANTSA continues its work concerning free movement, with a focus on contributing to European public policies to encourage considering situations of destitution among mobile EU citizens.