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