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Using European Funds to Combat Homelessness FEANTSA POLICY CONFERENCE 9th October 2020 fio.PSD (Italian Federation of Organizations Working with Homeless People) Caterina Cortese
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Using European Funds to Combat
HomelessnessFEANTSA POLICY CONFERENCE
9th October 2020
fio.PSD
(Italian Federation of Organizations Working with Homeless People)
Caterina Cortese
SCENARIO
50,724 homeless people (Istat 2015)
21% experimenting chronicle homelessness (+4years)
Homelessness in Italy
Emerging profiles
(fio.PSD Observatory)
Women
Young
Working poors
Migrants
68,910 homeless
receiving material
assistance (FEAD 2019)
• Homelessness got on in the National Political Agenda as priority
• Guidelines to tackling homelessness (by Ministry of Labor and Social Affair)
• Housing First as best way
From 2015 -
currently
Homelessness Strategy in Italy
•Bottom UP process and Participative approach between Ministry, Regional and Local governments to share best practices and guidelines (and fio.PSD as Technical Secretariat)
•Overcoming emergency approach
•Human rights-based approach
•Guidelines are binding for services using EU budget
From 2015-
currently
KEY ELEMENTS
ESF Renforcing homelesseness services
Training for social workers
Training and employability activities for deprived people
Pilot projects
EFRD Reorganizing shelters
Renovating buildings Social infrastructure
Affordable housing
FEAD Basic/material assistance
Starter kit for housing
EU FUNDS: Goals
ADDRESSED TO TACKLE
HOMELESSNESS IN ITALY
EU FUNDS: Tools
•NOP Inclusion
•NOP Città Metropolitane
•Poverty Plan
•OP I FEAD
•Regional Operative Plans
ADDRESSED TO TACKLE
HOMELESSNESSIN ITALY
Role fo fio.PSD
• Advocacy and sensibilization
•Promotion of the new culture and social innovation
•Looking to homeless people as resources Scaling UP!
CURRENT PERIOD
EU FUNDS: PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE FROM ITALY
• The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs has allocated in the Structural Funds 50 million + 50 million € in seven years (2016-2022) to policies for homeless people
• 50% ESF funds NOP Inclusion (National Operational Program)
• 50% FEAD (Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived)IntegratedStrategy Call for proposal for funding innovative interventions to end
homelessness – (NOP Inclusion and OP I FEAD) (Notice 4/2016)
• Beneficiaries: Regions and Municipalities• Objectives: To manage with innovative solutions for homeless people (HF)• Application: To apply the Guidelines of the Ministry• Vision: To promote material assistance and pathways to social inclusion
Call for proposals: distribution of local projects
Most of italian
municipalities
have submitted
projects and
received EU
funding for
services
Source Fio.PSD-University of Bolougne 2020
fio.PSD role
•Accompaniment of fio.PSD‘s associated
•Territorial supervision on implementation of the projects
•Training of social workers
•Analysis, research in collaboration with University of Boulogne
•Dissemination activities
Accompaniment
ESF and FEAD distibution per macro-action
22%
29%
31%
7%
6%5%
31% Reinforcing the formerly services 29% Housing First/HL projects22% Adoption of innovative model 7% Case management6% Multi-disciplinarity team 5% Enhancement of Third Sector
Most part of
local projects are
Housing
oriented
Source Fio.PSD-University of Bolougne 2020
Recently the use of ESF and FEAD to address Homelessness has get good
results in Italy
Activation of capacity building process within public services
Enforcing of the multilevel governance
Housing first/Housing Led are promising approaches
More than 1,000 homeless people are housed now (Turin, Bolognue,
Trieste, Trento, Padua, Catania…)
Main results
SOME EXAMPLES OF LOCAL PROJECTS
FUNDED
Housing solutions for Homeless People
The city of Turin
Housing Led, Housing First: two local projects ResTO and AbiTO based on ONP
Inlcusion/ESF, FEAD and Municipality resources
35 apartments rent in a private housing market and public stock
Housing solutions for Homeless People
The city of Bolougne
and
NGO-Piazza
Grande
(Housing Office)
Co-housing for 20 working poors (NOP Metro/ESF)
«Condominio scalo» (Community housing) for 22 most vulnerable people
(LGBT, elderly, ex prisoners, young-adult)
(NOP Metro/European social fund and local resources)
Housing First (for 69 homeless people)
(NOP Metro, NOP Inclusione
and local resources)
- Co-production and public-privat partnership (PPP)
- Innovation vs strenghten of services
- Not only shelter!
- Accommodationd and Case Management
- Housing is the answer
- Material distribution toward the housing projects
- Reaching vulnerable people
- Social inclusion: you can manage it!
Lessons learned
Integration
- Gap between planning and implementation of the policies
- Gap between «wishes» and «reality»
- Rules of funds using
- Difficolties to find affordable housing
- Difficolties to promote work autonomy of the most vulnerable people
Challenges
Flexible use of
the funds
LAST BUT NOT LEAST
Recently (August, 2020) the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies
confirmed the second loan of 50 millions for interventions to combat
severe adult marginalization
Territories at work!
+ 50 millions to
Homelessness
Refinancing the Call for proposal (Notice 4)
