European Research Conference Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe York, 21st September 2012 The ‘Back From The Streets’ Project An alternative housing led approach in Hungary Andrea Szabó Public Foundation for the Homeless Hungary

European Research Conference Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe York, 21st September 2012 Program context From 2010 strong political pressure to reduce rough sleeping (mainly at visible places, city centres, public areas) New local and national law on the use of public places, new approach of (visible) homelessness by the police and local authorities Strong need of service providers for recourses to finance reasonable and professional social work tools New programs to help rough sleepers into appropriate accommodation

European Research Conference Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe York, 21st September 2012 Program context: Activities of the Public Foundation for the Homeless Public Foundation for the Homeless Development of the homeless- service system in Hungary FOGLAK Project Office Research, communication, support for service providers Foundation Office – Fund allocation, tendering Service providing for homeless people State - Agency role NGO role

European Research Conference Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe York, 21st September 2012 Development of the homeless- service system in Hungary Pilot project co-founded by the state and the EU Development of new approaches and social work tools promoting social inclusion and mainstream employment of homeless people FOGLAK Project Office Awareness raising campaigns, events National conference on homelessness Meetings and formal consultations between relevant national or local political actors and the service providers Research, communication, support for service providers Allocation of governmental recourses dedicated to develop the service system for homeless people in the annual national budget Planning of the new calls considering the policy development directions, the implementation and adaptation of new approaches Fund allocation, tendering

European Research Conference Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe York, 21st September 2012 Program background Late 2010:  Remaining found from a closed program financed by the Ministry of Human Recources, coordinated by the Public Foundation  First consultations with the ministry to use the resource for the new issue (visible rough sleeping) Early 2011:  Designing the call, developing the terms and conditions  Promoting the new program for the service providers (the applicants) From March to November 2011  Dealing with administrative issues  Dealing with reduced found December 2011 call for proposals April 2012 final grant agreements March – May 2012 start of supported programs December 2012 – January 2013 closure of supported programs

European Research Conference Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe York, 21st September 2012 Program details The found  Source: National budget, Ministry of Human Resources  Amount: 104 million HUF ≈ 371,428 € Supported programs  18 programs: 7 in Budapest, 10 Cities in countryside Target group  Pimary target group: 209 chronic rough sleepers (109 living in cities in countryside, 100 living in Budapest)  Secondary target group: 61 homeless people living in shelters (19 living in Cities in countryside, 42 living in Budapest)

European Research Conference Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe York, 21st September 2012 Program details: locations Budapest Cityies in countryside: Szombathely, Mosonmagyaróvár, Veszprém, Székesfehérvár, Tatabánya, Kecskemét, Szolnok, Kazincbarcika, Debrecen, Nyíregyháza

European Research Conference Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe York, 21st September 2012 Participants pathways Chronic Rough sleeping PRIMARY TARGET GROUP NO SHELTER Home Long term care (nursing home, or psychiatric care) One-night or temporary shelter Home Long term care (nursing home, or psychiatric care) Providing free beds in one- night shelter or temporary shelter – help to move on for participants in shelters SECONDARY TARGET GROUP Home Long term care (nursing home, or psychiatric care) New easy access shelter for chronic rough sleepers

European Research Conference Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe York, 21st September 2012 WHY IS THE EVALUATION NECESSARY?

European Research Conference Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe York, 21st September 2012 flexible individual support in housing homelessness shared housing, “training dwell- ings”, etc. regular dwelling with (time-limited) occupation agree- ment based on special conditions regular self- contained dwelling with rent contract reception stage Long term rough sleeping One-night Shelter (more rules, limited tolerance of alcohol, free service) Temporary shelter (service fee, strict rules, better living conditions) regular self- contained dwelling with rent contract Easy access services (crisis shelters, few order, free service, tolerance of alcohol etc.) ‚Elsőként Lakhatás’ – in Hungary Street work XX Original figure from Dr. Volker Busch-Geertsema

European Research Conference Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe York, 21st September 2012 An example: evaluation of a previous housing led program Program aim: promoting social inclusion and mainstream employment of homeless people Found: co-financed by the EU and the state Target group: homeless people using any service Data collection: specific software designed for the programs The database: 6 Region; 16 City; 23 supported program; 1062 homeless individual; 596 supported participants; 447 successfully completed individual support plan

European Research Conference Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe York, 21st September 2012 Two indicators of programs at the end of the follow up period

European Research Conference Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe York, 21st September 2012 How can these indicators be interpreted?

European Research Conference Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe York, 21st September 2012 How can these indicators be interpreted?

European Research Conference Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe York, 21st September 2012 How can these indicators be interpreted?

European Research Conference Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe York, 21st September 2012 How can these indicators be interpreted?

European Research Conference Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe York, 21st September 2012 Evaluation of programs 3rd of February survey  Independent annual survey since 1999  Designed and coordinated by a working group  Target group: homeless people in contact with service providers (street work, shelters, temporary accommodations)  Location: Budapest, larger cities of Hungary also, 2012 smaller towns of Hungary also  Number of respondents 6,000-8,500 at each last 6 survey, 32,000 individual between and  The service providers can join to the data collection  The data collection is on the 3rd of February each year  The social workers are offering the questionnaire for the homeless people, and they also help to understand the questions or write down the answers  The questionnaire is anonym and voluntary

European Research Conference Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe York, 21st September 2012 Evaluation of programs 3rd of February survey - Data structure  Constant questions every year, and annual focus themes each year – some of them repeatedly asked in a longer period  Each individual has an identical number generated each time at the same method from the monograms and birth date  The long term follow up of each individual respondent is possible including the place of the data collection (eg. on streets, in shelter etc.)

European Research Conference Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe York, 21st September 2012 Evaluation of programs The 3rd of February provides baseline data of each years on the structure and locality of the target group Each individual in the supported ‚Back from the streets’ programs will be searched in the database, and all answered questions can be analysed as an individual history of homelessness Also matching indicator data will be collected on ‚Back from the streets’ participants and compared to the baseline data

European Research Conference Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe York, 21st September 2012 Evaluation of programs Qualitative data collection  Regular meetings with service providers focusing on useful good practises and barriers when access to the private rental or social rental housing is sought for their homeless clients  On site interview both with social workers project leaders, and participants (part of the program- monitoring)  Detailed interview at two selected programs on the impact of the programs

European Research Conference Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe York, 21st September 2012 CONTACT Hajléktalanokért Közalapítvány Public Foundation For The Homeless Andrea Szabó