Joint organiser: Belgian Federal Public Planning Service for Social Integration

Centred on preventing and fighting homelessness, this Policy Lab will feature a presentation on the results of the study ‘Homelessness in EU urban areas, before and after the pandemic’ recently carried out by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre.

Related Belgian and international projects will also be presented in workshops organised around three themes: Housing First, collective housing and youth homelessness.

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