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Housing first & homelessness challenges: A focus group with international experts

dc.contributor.authorJoão Vargas Moniz, Maria
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-16T17:18:25Z
dc.date.available2021-06-16T17:18:25Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractHomelessness is becoming an expressed concern on the political realm expressed by the different political sectors, governmental bodies in the European Union and across other territories. Critical events related with Homelessness (e.g. deaths, violence both as victims and perpetrators, children being born on the streets) with variations, receive some attention from some media. However, we are experiencing a somewhat contradictory situation, on one hand, governments express concern with the phenomenon, support the emergence and the consolidation of national strategies, allocate programmatic resources (budget) to provide relief responses and the general public is concerned with those affected by the fact that some people despite the age, gender, ethnical background, health or mental health status remain for variant periods on the streets of the cities with a larger incidence on larger metropolis; on the other hand effective change in societal response is low and the situation essentially prevails. Within the HOME_EU: Reversing Homelessness in Europe Project (H2020 GA/ 726997), we were able to gather experts from the United States Marybeth Shinn (University of Vanderbilt), Sam Tsemberis (Pathways to Housing), Ken Matton (University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign), Paul Toro (Wayne State University), and Europe, Ronni Greenwood (University of Limmerick), and José Ornelas, ISPA – Instituto Universitário) in Padova (June, 2018) around the core questions: a) why is Homelessness is a prevailing condition; and b) Why are we not being able to solve the problem? (We know about solutions, and effective responses.) The debate pointed that the major challenges include the variations of interest and the lack of consistent and continued efforts to address homelessness as a political priority; the shortage of Housing policies on availability and affordability; as a positive note the renovated national strategies may represent new in some cohorts opportunities, mostly advanced and pressed by civic and grass-roots movements, and some homeless studies (e.g. At Home/ Chez Soi in Canada, Chez Soi d’Abord in France, and now the HOME_EU with eight European Countries) contribute to the advancement of Housing First as a privileged model to transform Homelessness into an exceptional social emergencypt_PT
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dc.identifier.citationIn J. Ornelas, M. J. Vargas-Moniz, & the HOME_EU consortium study Group (Eds.). (2020). Homelessness as unfairness (pp. 81-96). Lisbon: ISPA - Instituto Universitário.pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn978-989-8384-62-1
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/8185
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherEdições ISPApt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectHomelessnesspt_PT
dc.subjectTransformative changept_PT
dc.subjectHousing first datept_PT
dc.titleHousing first & homelessness challenges: A focus group with international expertspt_PT
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oaire.citation.endPage96pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage81pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleHomelessness as Unfairnesspt_PT
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person.givenNameMaria
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