The ‘Back From The Streets’ Project- An Alternative Housing Led Approach in Hungary

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


Program context: Activities of the Public
Foundation for the Homeless
State - NGO role
Public Foundation
Agency role
for the Homeless

Development of Service
the homeless- providing for
service system homeless people
in Hungary

Research, comm Foundation
FOGLAK Project unication, suppo Office – Fund
Office rt for service allocation,
providers tendering


Development of the homeless-
service system in Hungary
• Pilot project co-founded by the state and the EU 2008-2012.
FOGLAK Project • Development of new approaches and social work tools promoting social
Office inclusion and mainstream employment of homeless people

• Awareness raising campaigns, events
Research, communicati • National conference on homelessness
on, support for service
providers • Meetings and formal consultations between relevant national or local
political actors and the service providers

• Allocation of governmental recourses dedicated to develop the
Fund allocation,
service system for homeless people in the annual national budget
tendering • Planning of the new calls considering the policy development
directions, the implementation and adaptation of new approaches


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


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)


Program details: locations
Cityies in countryside:
Szombathely, Mosonmagyaróvár,
Veszprém, Székesfehérvár,
Tatabánya, Kecskemét, Szolnok,
Kazincbarcika, Debrecen,
Nyíregyháza

Budapest


Participants pathways
Home
NO SHELTER

Long term care (nursing
home, or psychiatric care)

Chronic Rough sleeping
Home
PRIMARY TARGET One-night or temporary
GROUP shelter


Providing free beds in one-
night shelter or temporary
shelter – help to move on
for participants in shelters Home
SECONDARY TARGET
GROUP

New easy access shelter
for chronic rough sleepers


WHY IS THE EVALUATION
NECESSARY?

regular self-
contained
dwelling with

X
regular dwelling with rent contract
(time-limited)
occupation agree-

X
shared housing, ment based on
“training dwell- special conditions Original figure from
ings”, etc. Dr. Volker Busch-Geertsema
reception stage

homelessness regular self-
contained
dwelling with
Temporary shelter rent contract
(service fee, strict
rules, better living
One-night Shelter conditions)
(more rules,
limited tolerance flexible individual
Easy access of alcohol, free support in housing
services (crisis service)
Street work shelters, few
order, free service,
Long term rough tolerance of
sleeping alcohol etc.)

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


Two indicators of programs at the end of the
follow up period


How can these indicators be interpreted?


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: 1999-2005 Budapest, 2006-2011 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 03.02.2006 and 03.02.2012.
 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


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.)


 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


 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


Hajléktalanokért Közalapítvány
Public Foundation For The Homeless
Andrea Szabó
szabo.andrea@hajlektalanokert.hu
http://www.hajlekot.hu/
+36-20-989-38-61

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