Strategically moving forward in combatting homelessness in Spain

Baptista, Isabel

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Baptista, Isabel

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The first National Comprehensive Homelessness Strategy 2015- 2020, adopted by the Spanish government in November 2015, is an innovative policy reform developed with wide political consensus at the national level. With an overall aim of overcoming the lack of integrated policies in tackling homelessness, the Strategy envisions the eradication of homelessness as its ‘final horizon’ under the leadership of the public sector. This paper discusses relevant EU dynamics leading to the growing adoption of holistic approaches to homelessness, focussing on the development of Spanish policy and providing comparative snapshots with the path followed by the first southern European homelessness strategy. It explores key drivers behind the adoption of the Spanish National Comprehensive Strategy on Homelessness as well as its contents and underlying principles, and it discusses the Strategy’s potential to deliver on its promises.