Hosts: fio.PSD and the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Pisa
Theme:Homelessness, Migration and Demographic Change in Europe
Key note speakers
Prof. Saskia Sassen (confirmed and announced in call)
Maurizio Ferrera (we agreed on him, but tbc by him)
Call is out, abstracts to be sent by end of March, decisions on program at EOH meeting in Pisa 15 April
7. Targeted Research Questionnaire Approach
Theme:Social Housing Allocation and Homelessness
Exploring access to social housing for people who are currently or potentially homeless i.e. within, or at risk of being, within the roofless and houseless groups identified by ETHOS.
The research will only be concerned with general needs social housing, i.e. housing that is designed as accommodation rather than as an purpose-built environment in which support services are delivered. It will not explore access to purpose built accom-modation based supported housing services, such as staircase model services, emergency accommodation or homeless hostels.
8. Targeted Research Questionnaire Approach
Research Questions:
How can access to social housing help tackle homelessness and potential homelessness?
What factors facilitate access to social housing for homeless and potentially homeless people?
What factors inhibit access to social housing for homeless and potentially homeless people?
How can access to social housing for homeless and potentially homeless people be enhanced?
9. Targeted Research Questionnaire Approach
Methodology
Relatively small scale project relying primarily on a questionnaire based survey of expert respondents in 13 selected member states.
National experts will be asked to provide a overview of social housing and homelessness in their societies, but the research will also make quite extensive use of vignettes.
Each vignette will present the expert respondents with an example of a household in a situation of current or potential homelessness and ask them to describe and comment upon the social housing options that are potentially available to that household.
10. Targeted Research Questionnaire Approach
Focus on 13 member states
Belgium Poland
Czech Republic Portugal
Finland Romania
FranceSweden
Germany Spain
Ireland UK
Netherlands
11. Targeted Research Questionnaire Approach
Timetable
Draft questionnaire to be circulated by end of March 2011
Finalisation of questionnaire by end of April 2011
Questionnaire circulated to expert respondents beginning of May 2011
Questionnaires returned by 10th June 2011
Draft report to be circulated by end of August 2011
12. Research Agenda (mainly with external funding)
Task: Develop Research Agenda for five to ten years and do comparative research on important themes
Use 20 years book and input from FEANTSA members as basis
Intensify use of external research funding for targeted primary research (e.g. on destitute migrants, risk studies, cost comparisons etc.) with differing external partners
Collection of themes has been compiled. Prioritisation next step.
Research themes from European Consensus Conference Jury Recommendations will be extracted.
Project on destitute migrants will soon be put out to tender under the PROGRESS programme of the EC.
13. European Journal of HomelessnessVol. 5. 2011 14. European Journal of Homelessness Vol. 5., No. 1.Special Edition onUnderstanding Homelessness and Housing Exclusion in the New European Context
Articles
Transitional Homelessness Homelessness in Transition in Eastern Europe
Social Safety Net, Informal Economy and Housing Poverty - Experiences in Transitional Countries
Social welfare capital of Polish rough sleepers in Brussels and Oslo
Understanding the Homeless Experience Through a Narrative Approach
Young Homeless People in the Czech Republic Terra Incognita?
Current Pictures of Homelessness in Poland. A Sociological Analysis
Research Review of Housing Policies and Homeless Programmes in Hungary
Book review Tsenkova, S, 2009:Housing Policy Reforms in Post-Socialist Europe. Lost in Transition , Springer, 262 pages
15. European Journal of Homelessness Vol. 5., No. 2. (open edition)
Peer Reviewed Articles (1 stApril closing date)
Policy Review -The French Homeless Strategy
Think Pieces
Special Debate Section on the Consensus Conference
Ruth Owen
Suzanne Fitzpatrick
Beth Shinn
Rene Knipe
Rolf Jordan (BAG W)
Edo Paartekooper
Marc Uhry (Fondation Abbe Pierre)
Book Reviews
Evelyn Dyb ( Swept Up Lives?: Re-envisioning the Homeless City)
Annika Remeus and Ann Jnsson (Swedish Social service board) ( Housing First Manual: The Pathways Model to End Homelessness for People with Mental Illness and Addiction)
