{"id":116670,"date":"2023-09-06T07:40:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T04:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/almost-1m-people-across-europe-are-homeless-on-any-given-night\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T07:40:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T04:40:01","slug":"almost-1m-people-across-europe-are-homeless-on-any-given-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/almost-1m-people-across-europe-are-homeless-on-any-given-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost 1m people across Europe are homeless on any given night"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116670\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nReport says homelessness is worsening across EU and UK, with only Denmark and Finland making progress. Almost 1 million people are homeless on any given night across Europe, a new report has estimated. Feantsa, the Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless, said the figure, which only reflects the \u201cmost visible forms\u201d of homelessness, \u201chighlights the failure of European countries to make housing a fundamental right\u201d. It estimated that at least 895,000 people are homeless each night \u2013 \u201ca population comparable to that of a city like Marseille or Turin\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The data collected from EU countries and the UK ranges from census records to local authority figures and is a \u201cminimum estimate\u201d, as figures were not available for all six categories that the authors of the report used to define homelessness. These categories include those sleeping rough, people in emergency accommodation, and \u201chomeless people living temporarily in conventional housing with family and friends\u201d. The last category will resonate for many in countries like Ireland, where housing has hit crisis levels, leaving working families evicted and having to live with family or friends. Freek Spinnewijn, Feantsa\u2019s director, said: \u201cMost governments in Europe continue to fail homeless people, frustrate the general public, and waste resources on ineffectively managing the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All the EU\u2019s member states pledged last year to work to deliver on the fight against homelessness by 2030. However, the report said the problem was worsening, with only Finland and Denmark making demonstrable progress. In Denmark homelessness fell by 10% between 2019 and 2022, which the report\u2019s authors said shows it is \u201cone of the countries making clear progress\u201d and could be a model for others. The Danish Centre for Social Science carries out a national survey on homelessness every two years, collecting data on every person with whom the local authorities are in contact. \u201cA paradigm shift away from managing homelessness in the shelter system to solving homelessness by providing housing is important progress \u2013 even if that does not lead to zero homeless people in the short-term,\u201d the authors said in the report, titled the 8th Overview of Housing Exclusion in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>They said the reduction in Denmark was \u201cvery likely\u201d to be a result of the national policy to combat homelessness as part of a \u201chousing first\u201d strategy, which improves capacity at accommodation centres and runs prevention policies targeting those aged under 24 in major cities.\u00a0In Germany, official census data puts the number of homeless people at 262,645, Spain recorded just over 28,500 for the same year, while Ireland, where a lack of housing across the social divide is threatening the government\u2019s re-election prospects, the official number of people in emergency accommodation was put at 11,632 at the end of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The number of those seeking accommodation services in Ireland has increased by 40% in two years, the report said. \u201cTo Ireland we would say, \u2018Fix your dysfunctional housing market,\u2019 and to Germany, \u2018Make sure the national homeless strategy which is to be launched soon includes the objective to end homelessness and comes with sufficient budgetary resources,\u2019\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>Feantsa also looked at poor-quality housing and found that significant numbers of people in the UK, France, Bulgaria and Hungary were living in homes deemed substandard and unfit for living. Across the EU, it called for greater awareness of the numbers of people housed in \u201cdilapidated\u201d properties with damp and mould, overcrowding, inadequate sanitation and fire risks, which were the \u201cdaily reality for millions of people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Hungary was singled out for substandard accommodation, with almost half the population \u201cliving in overcrowded housing\u201d, while one in eight families in Bulgaria were living in accommodation without an indoor toilet. Unfit housing was not just the preserve of eastern Europe, however. The authors found that in 2020, almost a fifth of the population of France were living in housing considered unfit for living, while almost a quarter of those in rented housing in the UK were classified in the same category.<\/p>\n<p>Substandard housing was not always the fault of municipal authorities or unscrupulous landlords. \u201cUnfit living conditions also affect countless owner-occupiers who do not have the resources to maintain or renovate their homes,\u201d the report said. According to the official EU data office, Eurostat, almost 20 million people across the bloc were suffering some form of \u201chousing deprivation\u201d in 2020. \u201cThis refers to the percentage of people living in overcrowded housing which has at least one of the following criteria: households with a leaking roof, with no bath\/shower and no indoor toilet, or dwellings considered too dark,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2023\/sep\/05\/almost-1m-people-across-europe-are-homeless-on-any-given-night\">The Guardian<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/almost-1m-people-across-europe-are-homeless-on-any-given-night\/\">Almost 1m people across Europe are homeless on any given night<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[11360,555,696,4380,1336],"class_list":["post-116670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-around","tag-csr-news-en","tag-europe","tag-homeless","tag-people"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}