IMPACT Conferences

The Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences (ICCR)

European Commission
DG Research Unit

Housing and Social Inclusion
January 16th - 17th 2003, Brussels, Belgium

Programme

This seminar was concerned with the significance of housing and housing integration for social inclusion and in particular the role of social integration services / programmes working with persons with housing needs and/or mediating housing arrangements.
The seminar was organised by the EUROHOME IMPACT consortium in the framework of a project of the Fifth Framework Programme on the housing dimension of welfare reform.
Rudolfine Gamboa,
ICCR,
Schottenfeldgasse 69/1,
A-1070 Vienna
(+43-1) 524 13 93 101 (tel.)
(+43-1) 524 13 93 200 (fax)
r.gamboa@iccr-international.org
Thursday, 16th January 2003

13:00 - 14:00: Buffet cold lunch at conference premises

14:00 - 15:45 Session 1: Housing Situation in Europe and Policy Trends
Chairperson: Liana Giorgi

14:05 - 14:25: Housing and Social Cohesion – Setting the Stage
Dragana Avramov

14:25 - 14:45: Housing Conditions and Integration in Europe and the Role of Welfare Regimes
Matthias Till and Liana Giorgi

14:45 - 15:05 Housing Policy and Local Initiatives in Eight European Countries aiming at Promoting Social Inclusion at Neighbourhood Level
Arild Holt-Jensen

15:05 - 15:25: Discussant: Bill Edgar

15:25 - 15:45 General Discussion

15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 - 18:00:
Session 2: Evaluation of Social Programmes with a Housing Element
Chairperson: Volker Busch-Geertsema

16:20 - 16:40: Evaluation of social re-integration programmes – principles and strategies
Marc-Henry Soulet

16:40 - 17:00: Targeted municipal housing in Vienna
Ursula Tentschert and Liana Giorgi

17:00 - 17:20: The Staircase of Transition: Survival through Failure
Ingrid Sahlin

17:20 - 17:40: Discussant: Dieter Verdick

17:40 - 18:00: General Discussion

20:00: Dinner with all conference participants

Friday, 17th January 2003

10:00 - 12:30:
Session 3: Successes and Failures of Re-housing Schemes for Homeless
Chairperson: Inger Koch-Nielsen

10:05 - 10:30: Does Re-housing lead to Re-integration?
Volker Busch-Geertsema

10:30 - 10:50: Re-housing the Homeless; A Follow-Up Study in Milan
Antonio Tosi

10:50 - 11:10: Re-housing Rough Sleepers; The Case of Dublin City Council Settlement Service
Maureen Lyons

11:10 - 11:30: The Resettlement of Older Homeless People; a UK Longitudinal Study of Outcomes
Anthony Warnes and Maureen Crane

11:30 - 11:45: Coffee break

11:45 - 12:05: Discussant: Maryse Marpsat-Compain

12:05 - 12:30: General Discussion

12:30 - 14:00: Lunch break

14:00 - 15:45:
Session 4: Standards of Service Delivery and Quality Assessment
Chairperson: Dragana Avramov

14:10 - 14:30: Which Homeless People Use Shelter and Hot Meal Services in France?
Cecile Brousse

14:30 - 14:50: Quality Assessment of Accommodation Services
Inger Koch-Nielsen

14:50 - 15:10 Discussant: Freek Spinnewijn

15:10 - 15:45: General Discussion

15:45 - 16:15: Coffee break

16:15 - 17:00:
Closing Session: Discussion on Policy & Research Recommendations

What can be learned from existing research on services concerned with social and housing integration as well as from research on homelessness? What should be the priorities of social policy in the next decade and, in this connection, what is the role of the European social policy agenda?

What are the main research gaps that national and European research programmes (including of the Sixth Framework Programme and/or Eurostat) could or should address? Are the gaps greater concerning quantitative or qualitative research? What types of networks are needed to address the research challenges in this field in the next five years?

Papers

Housing and Social Cohesion – Setting the Stage
Dragana Avramov

Housing Conditions and Integration in Europe and the Role of Welfare Regimes
Matthias Till and Liana Giorgi

Housing Policy and Local Initiatives in Eight European Countries aiming at Promoting Social Inclusion at Neighbourhood Level
Arild Holt-Jensen

Targeted municipal housing in Vienna
Ursula Tentschert and Liana Giorgi

The Staircase of Transition: Survival through Failure
Ingrid Sahlin

Does Re-housing lead to Re-integration?
Volker Busch-Geertsema

Re-housing the Homeless; A Follow-Up Study in Milan
Antonio Tosi

Re-housing Rough Sleepers; The Case of Dublin City Council Settlement Service
Maureen Lyons

The Resettlement of Older Homeless People; a UK Longitudinal Study of Outcomes
Anthony Warnes and Maureen Crane

Quality Assessment of Accommodation Services
Inger Koch-Nielsen

Venue

Hotel Metropole
Place de Brouckère
1040 Brussels
Belgium

Organising Institutions

The EUROHOME IMPACT consortium comprises the following institutes:

The Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences (ICCR), Austria

Population and Social Policy Consultants (PSPC), Belgium

Danish National Institute of Social Research (SFI), Denmark

Gesellschaft für Innovative Sozialforschung und Sozialplannung (GISS), Germany

Homeless Initiative, Ireland

Dipartimento di Scienze del Territorio (DST), Milan Polytechnic, Italy

Department of Social Work, University of Friburg, Switzerland