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Ending homelessness

Edited on 23/07/2025

01/09/2019 15/03/2022

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  • Action Planning Network
  • Social cohesion
  • Housing
  • Poverty

To end homelessness through innovative housing solutions at city level is the main driver from the Action Planning network. It is not about managing homelessness, but rather putting an end to it using the Housing First model and gathering accurate data. ROOF aims to achieve the strategic goal of Functional Zero (no structural homelessness).

ROOF - Ending homelessness

Summary

Partners

Lead Partner : Ghent - Belgium
  • Braga - Portugal
  • Glasgow
  • Liège - Belgium
  • ODENSE - Denmark
  • Poznań - Poland
  • Thessaloniki - Greece
  • Timisoara - Romania
  • Toulouse Métropole - France

Timeline

  • Phase 1: Kick-Off Meeting in Paris (FR)





     
  • Final meeting phase 1 in Ghent (BE)
  • Phase 2: Kick-Off Meeting in Glasgow (UK) - online
  • ROOF workshop on storytelling - online
  • ROOF workshop on advocacy - online
  • Transnational meeting in Odense on data - online
     
  • Winter School Braga - online
  • Transnational meeting in Timisoara & Poznan - online
  • Advocacy network meeting discussing proposal of housing first/funding key messages for Europe - online
  • Advocacy network meeting discussing proposal of data key messages - online
  • Transnational meeting in Thessaloniki - online
  • Transnational meeting in Toulouse - online
  • Final event in Liège
  • Final event in Ghent

     

 

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Network Outputs

Integrated Action Plans

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ROOF Integrated Action Plan - City of Ghent
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Toulouse Metropole (FR)
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ROOF Integrated Action Plan - Toulouse Métropole
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Ending Homelessness Across Europe - ROOF Integrated Action Plan Glasgow (UK)
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Co-design, collaboration and storytelling to prevent homelessness
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ROOF Pozńan Integrated Action Plan
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ROOF Integrated Action Plan - City of Pozńan
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Towards ending homelessness in Timisoara - ROOF Integrated Action Plan
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ROOF Integrated Action Plan - City of Timisoara
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ROOF Liège Integrated Action Plan
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ROOF Integrated Action Plan - City of Liège
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ROOF Odense Integrated Action Plan
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ROOF Integrated Action Plan - City of Odense
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ROOF Thessaloniki Integrated Action Plan
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Social and Affordable Housing and Combating Housing Exclusion and Homelessness in Thessaloniki
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Braga House of Skills - ROOF Integrated Action Plan
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Braga House of Skills
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