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Good Governance: The key to effective homelessness policies
FEANTSA's European Observatory on Homelessness - European Research Conference
The Hague, Friday 19 September 2008

Conference themes

This important research conference was aimed at researchers in the area of homelessness, representatives from homeless organisations, policy makers and other interested parties.
Governance is an important focus of current research into homelessness. This conference was a unique opportunity for transnational exchange and networking on the theme of governance.

Conference documents

Programme
List of delegates
Conference photos

Conference speakers

• Prof. Dr. Judith Wolf: Policies and Challenges in reducing Homelessness in the Netherlands
• Prof. Dennis Culhane: Overview of the Dynamics of Homelessness in the US (Powerpoint presentation)
• Bill Edgar: Reflections on Homelessness Research in Europe (PDF paper)

Effective strategies to combat homelessness arising from domestic violence

• Gina Netto: “Effective housing interventions to address women facing domestic violence” (Powerpoint presentation)
• Irene Jonker: “The profiles of battered women who attend women's shelters: A baseline study and one year follow-up” (PDF paper)

Participation of people who are homeless

• Caroline Norman: “Homelessness and the arts: the importance of culture and participation in governance, public policy and social research” (PDF paper)
• Jorgen Anker: “Organizing homeless people: Exploring the emergence of a user organization in Denmark” (PDF paper)

Prevention of homelessness

• Suzanne Fitzpatrick and Volker Busch-Geertsema: “Effective Homelessness Prevention?: Explaining Reductions in Homelessness in Germany and England” (PDF paper)
• Dennis Culhane: “Experiences with homeless prevention strategies in the USA" (PDF paper)
• Nicolas Pleace: “Housing homeless people in 'strong and prosperous communities' - Exploring a tension in English housing and welfare policy” (PDF paper) (Powerpoint presentation)
• Martin Stam: Eropaf - “Reduction, through boundary crossing, of house eviction and homelessness in Amsterdam” (PDF paper)

Role of public policy

• Eoin O’Sullivan and Isabel Baptista: “The Role of the State in Developing Effective Homeless Strategies” (PDF paper)
• Lars-Erik Olsson and Marie Nordfeldt: “Homelessness and the tertiary welfare system in Sweden” (PDF paper)
• Carol McNaughton and Iain Atherton: “Housing First: a review of experiences” (PDF paper)
• Lars Benjaminsen: “The Effects of Housing Interventions for the Homeless - Targeting of interventions and selection effects" (PDF paper)
• Dennis Culhane and Stephen Metraux: "Rearranging the deckchairs or reallocating the lifeboats? - Homelessness assistance and its alternatives (PDF paper)