governance of homelessness
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Presentation given by Gijsbert Vonk, NL at the Ninth European Research Conference on Homelessness, "Homelessness in Times of Crisis", Warsaw, September 2014 http://feantsaresearch.org/spip.php?article222&lang=enTRANSCRIPT
9th European Research Conference
Homelessness in Times of Crisis
Warsaw, Friday 19th September 2014
The governance of
homelessness
Gijsbert Vonk
Professor of public law
University of Groningen
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9th European Research Conference
Homelessness in Times of Crisis
Warsaw, Friday 19th September 2014
Set up
1) Homelessness and constitution
2) Homelessness and criminal law
3) Homelessness and immigration
4) Human rights responses
Challenges for the EU
Special focus: EU proposals for the future
| Date 28.09.2009
The extent of homelessness: a question of definition
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Destitution
material deprivation +
Non participation +
Limited control over one’s life
social exclusion
matrial deprivation + non-participation
Poverty (60% of median wage)
Material deprivation
Homelessness Destitute +
Housless or roofless,
Homelessness Insecure housing
Inadequate housing
Houseless
Roofless
findings
• Human righs response
• Immigration
• Criminal law • Constitution
Local dumping
Rise of repressive
welfare
Active judiciary
Exclusion and limbo
• Human rights response
• Immigration
• Criminal law • Constitution
Local dumping
Rise of repressive
welfare
Active judiciary
Exclusion and limbo
9th European Research Conference
Homelessness in Times of Crisis
Warsaw, Friday 19th September 2014
Recommendations
EU must underpin homelessness as a
national responsibility
Prison house is no alternative for shelter
From exclusion to integration
Services reflect human rights obligations
9th European Research Conference
Homelessness in Times of Crisis
Warsaw, Friday 19th September 2014
Future prospects
Towards a European cost sharing
mechanism to facilitate the integration of
poor EU mobile citizens
Towards an instrument for the protection of
vulnerable people in extreme need,
irrespective of nationality and status