1. CITY TERRITORIAL DISPARITIES How do we fight them?
The city of athens’ perspective

2. LOW INCOME UNEMPLOYMENT
Threshold of relative poverty: 21,4% of Greece’s population / Same for Athens.
Athenian extreme poverty rate : 20,6% (highest in Greece by far)
Approximately 138,000 residents in Athens are lacking the basic necessities for survival.
+ approximately 16,000 immigrants and refugees currently located in Greece’s capital city.
UNEMPLOYMENT
National rates: 24,5%, Attica region: 26,7%
with a 50% youth unemployment
75% of unemployed live under the poverty threshold
Athens’ ID
670,000 registered residents =
Epicentre of Attica Region:
1/2 country’s population

3. City center decline
Concentration of homelessness and drug addiction,
Anti-social behavior,
Criminality,
Expanding gentrification trend. +
N-W part = most vulnerable one
Income & energetic poverty,
Unemployment highest rate: 24%
Demographic density (more than 1/3 of the general Athenian population),
Majority of immigrants and refugees (in official&unofficial housing schemes).

4. 1ST GENERATION CHALLENGES
ANSWERS
&
Lack of connectivity
(public transport to downtown location of social services provision)
leading to Exclusion
Mobile Units providing home care
to elders
Streetworking for homeless
Social Housing Network
Municipal Clinics Network
Decentralize
by creating
Networks & Proximity mobile units

5. 2ND GENERATION CHALLENGES
&
ANSWERS
Integrated Social Services Network
Services dissemination
& lots of referrals +
Lack of Connectivity
(data sharing,
real time handling
individualized & territorial approach)
Through
One-Stop-Shops (aka SEPs)
Connectivity 2.0
Upon
The already existing Municipal Clinics Network
Project (creation of 2 SEPs)
Where?
Patissia Municipal Clinic
(N-W area) +
Solidarity Garrison (downtown Athens)
What?
Health care
Psychosocial support
Childcare
Legal & employability counseling
Who?
Consortium
(MoA, NGOs, private, partner cities)
How much?
EaSI funding
For how long?
2,5 years
When? Right Now!

6. What’s next? From integration to resiliency
Establish and expand the integrative approach
Fight chronic stresses
Complex & time consuming procedures
Twin project in Kypseli (N-W area) +
Converting the 5 remaining Municipal Clinics (ITI funding tool)
Applying case- management & referral digital system to all municipal services (including SEPs)
Long term unemployment by
Using SEPs + Central Job Center as social enterprises incubators
Blend vulnerable groups
Enforcing neighborhood identity & ownership
Using Social Reference Procurement

7. Thank you
and keep walking!