Poverty & Homelessness:
Global Links, Selected

	Summer 2009 - Homelessness and Quality of Social Services: the standardisation debate Debate around quality of social services has intensified in recent years. Increasingly, questions are being asked as to how the quality of social services can best be guaranteed, how vulnerable users can make informed choices on the type of service they need, how training of social workers can best be ensured, and how social service providers can adapt to increasingly competitive markets. Much of the debate relates to how and whether standardisation can be reconciled with the special role of social services in the protection of fundamental rights, ensuring social cohesion and social protection. http://www.feantsa.org/code/en/pg.asp?Page=35
	Spring 2009 - Homelessness and the Arts: Creativity, empowerment and social change This edition of Homeless in Europe seeks to explore the ways in which the arts have been used in different parts of Europe to help homeless people deal with their problems and everyday life. In recent years, the use of art as a means to empowerment and well-being has taken on a larger role within the sphere of social service provision. It is becoming increasingly accepted that the cultural activities broadly known as 'the arts' can inspire vulnerable people to find a voice. http://www.feantsa.org/code/en/pg.asp?Page=35
	Winter 2008 - Housing and Homelessness: models and practices from across Europe This edition of Homeless in Europe seeks to add to the debate on Housing and Homelessness, further exploring some of the issues that were raised amongst participants at FEANTSA's annual conference in Cardiff, and giving more examples of current practices in different European countries. Should we talk of housing first, housing only or housing plus? Who - local authorities, private landlords, social renting agencies, local associations - should be involved in housing homeless people? Should more time and energy be put into preventing people from becoming homeless in the first place? And how is the personal well-being of homeless people being taken into account in the whole housing question? http://www.feantsa.org/code/en/pg.asp?Page=35
	Autumn 2008 - The Right to Housing: The Way Forward Access to adequate housing can be considered as being a precondition for the exercise of most other fundamental human rights. Having a secure, adequate and affordable place to live is essential to the achievement of a decent standard of living and to the fulfilment of human life beyond simple survival. This bumper edition looks at the issue of the right to housing from a number of perspectives and gives practical information on the legal frameworks which promote the right to housing, explains the Council of Europe Collective Complaint mechanism, presents national case studies from Scotland, Finland, France and Spain and provides details on Housing Rights Watch. http://www.feantsa.org/code/en/pg.asp?Page=35
	Summer 2008 - Homelessness in the New Member States The summer 2008 edition of Homeless in Europe focuses on the issue of homelessness in Europe's New Member States, those twelve countries that most recently joined the EU. What the majority of these new members have in common is that they were under Soviet domination for fifty years. Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, they have experienced significant socio-economic and political changes, transitioning from planned economies to free-market models. The far-reaching reforms and political liberalisation that have taken place have radically transformed institutional structures, including social services, and new solutions have had to be found to old and new problems. http://www.feantsa.org/code/en/pg.asp?Page=35
	Winter 2007 - Employment and Homelessness: An Opportunity and a Challenge In 2007, the annual theme of FEANTSA was employment and homelessness. The aim of this issue of the magazine is not to repeat the discussions and analysis that were part of the annual theme reporting and which are presented in the European Report. Instead this collection of articles seeks to further explore some of the questions that were raised particularly at FEANTSA’s European Conference in Saragossa in October 2007 and to provide a more in-depth focus on those issues that FEANTSA members felt hadn’t been sufficiently addressed in the course of the annual theme. http://www.feantsa.org/code/en/pg.asp?Page=35
	Autumn 2007 - Social and Demographic Change and Homelessness The evolution of the composition of the European population and the changing social fabric across the EU are having a major impact on the phenomenon of homelessness. The present edition brings together the experience of service providers and public authorities on the ground, and the changes documented by researchers, in order to offer a picture of how the social and demographic context has evolved across the EU and how these changes have become visible in the experience of homelessness and the profiles of people experiencing homelessness in Europe. http://www.feantsa.org/code/en/pg.asp?Page=35
	Summer 2007 - Criminalisation of People who are Homeless This issue of the FEANTSA magazine focuses on the growing trends towards repressive and coercive approach towards people who are homeless and their activities in public space. It looks at the situation across Europe and in North America, where it seems there is a growing trend towards the criminalisation of the activities that people who are homeless are forced to carry out in public space (eating, sleeping etc.), rather than a focus on policies to address their situation of poverty and marginalisation. http://www.feantsa.org/code/en/pg.asp?Page=35
	Winter 2006 - Health and homelessness: looking at the full picture "The Right to Health is a Human Right: Ensuring access to health for people who are homeless" has been FEANTSA’s Annual Theme in 2006. During the course of the year FEANTSA looked at various issues in relation to health and homelessness. The aim of this edition of the FEANTSA magazine is to build on the findings of the Annual Theme. The authors look in more detail on several of the key issues raised. What is more, they integrate additional dimensions to the topic by discussing questions such as housing and health, drug addiction, and mental health in relation to housing. http://www.feantsa.org/code/en/pg.asp?Page=35

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• Autumn 2006 - Participation of service users: giving a voice to the experts
• Summer 2006 - The EU matters: The impact of Europe on the fight against homelessness and housing exclusion
• Winter 2005 - Social Emergency and Crisis Intervention in Large European Cities
• Summer 2005 - Local Authorities and the Fight against Homelessness
• May 2005 - The Future of Service Provision in Europe: The Homeless Sector and the Draft Services Directive
• Winter 2004 - Prevention Strategies and the Fight Against Homelessness
• Autumn 2004 - Legislative Change Affecting Housing and Homelessness in Europe
• Spring 2004 - Alternative Approaches to Homelessness: Looking beyond Europe
• Previous Editions



• Homelessness (HUD - U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development)
  And see: Homeless Assistance Library
• Homeless UK
• Mission Australia
• National Alliance to End Homelessness (U.S.)
• National Homelessness Strategy (AUS)
• National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness (U.S.)
• NLCHP- National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty (U.S.)
• RESULTS is a nonprofit grassroots advocacy organization committed to creating the political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty. RESULTS is committed to individuals exercising their personal and political power by lobbying elected officials for effective solutions and key policies that affect hunger and poverty.
• Links — Global Anti-Poverty Organizations and Other Resources
• Links — U.S. Anti-Poverty Organizations and Other Resources
• Links — Government Links, International Financial Insitutions and
  the United Nations
• ROOF - The housing and homelessness magazine (U.K.)
• Street News Service (U.S.)
  The Street News Service (SNS) is a gateway to the best articles, essays and features written by and about homeless and low-income people. These articles are collected from the pages of street newspapers -- enterprising publications produced by low-income communities in over 40 cities across North America. Street newspapers serve a vital role in these cities, giving homeless people meaningful work, educating citizens about poverty issues and breaking important news stories.
• street roots, non-profit newspaper and online community in Portland, Oregon
• Survival Guide to Homelessness (blog)
• The UK Coalition on Older Homelessness