Housing First and PIEs in Finland
Finland is often cited as the country that has shown that Housing First can work just as well in the context of Europe’s more extensive welfare state values, and the EU social charter.
In their report, A Home of Your Own, one of the leading exponents of this work in Finland, Y Foundation, describe in some detail the development of their services.
We also have here the beginnings of a discussion with Y Foundation on the underlying characteristics of successful supported housing programmes. WE hope to bring more on their work after the CEO's visit to England, and presentation at a Westminster Policy Forum, in February 2018
See also Strnad & Masat on institutionalised exclusion and the operation of staircase models in the post-Soviet Czech republic
Also Joan Smith on the difficulties in defining homelessness with any consistency, for comparative research purposes, within differing European political contexts
A Home of Your Own; Housing First in Finland HERE
The characteristics of successful supported housing programmes: Single Site Housing First in Finland HERE
PIEs, 'scattered' site and 'networked housing HERE
'Recovery housing in the US and UK' HERE
See also Strnad & Masat on institutionalised exclusion and the operation of staircase models in the Czech republic HERE
Joan Smith on the difficulties in defining homelessness with any consistency, for comparative research purposes, within differing European political contexts HERE