18th European Research Conference on Homelessness

12th-13th of September, 2024

Budapest, Hungary

VENUE: Central European University, Budapest

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About the Conference 

FEANTSA’s European Observatory on Homelessness, the Metropolitan Research Institute, and BMSZKI are pleased to announce the 18th European Research Conference on Homelessness in Budapest, Hungary on September 12th and 13th, 2024. This is Europe’s leading research conference on homelessness and will explore recent evidence on the broad theme of homelessness and housing exclusion from across Europe and elsewhere. We particularly encourage submissions for our special stream on data collection methods and ongoing national, regional and local level counts. Early career researchers are also invited to present their research activities.

 

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Keynote speakers

Bálint Misetics, Hungary, is a social policy expert whose work integrates research, advocacy, policy, and fieldwork. He is currently working for the Municipality of Budapest as the Senior Advisor to the Mayor on Housing and Social Policy, and serves as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Municipal Foundation for Social Policy. He was the author of the Municipality’s new strategy on homelessness which attempts to reframe homelessness as a housing problem.

 

Ruth Owen, Belgium, is Deputy Director at FEANTSA (European Federation of National Associations Working with the Homeless), where she had worked since 2011. She is an expert on homelessness and public policies to address it, notably in European contexts.  She has a special interest in housing policy. Prior to working on homelessness, Ruth studied geography and worked as a teacher in London.  

 

John Sylvestre, Canada, is a Full Professor in the School of Psychology and a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Research on Educational and Community Services, at the University of Ottawa. His interests lie in the study and evaluation of community mental health programs, with a particular interest in homelessness and poverty. His recent work focuses on community development and social change strategies in social housing.

 

  

Dorottya Szikra, HU Dorottya Szikra is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest, and Visiting Professor at the Department of Gender Studies, CEU Vienna. She is also associated with CEU Democracy Institute. Her main research field is welfare state and family policy development in Central and Eastern Europe. Between 2016 and 2020 she acted as the co-chair of the European Social Policy Analysis Network (ESPAnet).Since 2021 she has served as a member of the EC commissioned High-Level Group on the future of social protection and of the welfare state in the EU. 

 


Planned Schedule

The conference will be held on Thursday and Friday, September 12th - 13th, 2024, starting at 13:00 on Thursday and closing at 17:00 on Friday, followed by a drinks reception. Optional field visits will be planned for Thursday morning. The conference dinner will be held on Thursday evening.

Venue and Fees

The sessions of the Conference will be held at the facilities of the Central European University in Budapest. The conference fee is 200 EURO (incl. meals and coffee breaks during the conference, including dinner). Presenters and PhD students pay a reduced fee of 100 EURO. Please sign up for the conference dinner and the special accommodation package (on a first come first served basis) upon registration from July 8th, 2024. A detailed cancellation policy will be announced on the registration page.

 


Programme

Field visits in Budapest - 11th September, 13h00-16h00

BMSZKI - Trauma-informed gynaecological service for homeless women (Symposium)

Field visits in Budapest - 12th September, 09h30-11h00

BMSZKI - Szabolcs street hostel and health center

BMSZKI - No Slum community housing project

Oltalom Charity Service – Low threshold complex and John Wesley Theological College

Field visits in Budapest - 12th September, 10h00-11h30

From Street to Home association - Project visit

 


Main Programme - 12th September

 

Registrations (AULA) | 12h30-13h30

 

Plenary Session I (Room: Auditorium) | 14h00-15h15

Chair: Volker Busch-Geertsema, DE

Dorottya Szikra, HU: Illiberal Welfare States in the making (TBC)

Bálint Misetics, HU: Understanding Homelessness: Housing and Capital

 

Seminar Session One | 16h00-17h30:

 

Seminar 1: Data Collection Methodologies I (Room: TBD) 

Chair: Lars Benjaminsen, DK

Philipp Schnell, AT: Strategies for Measuring Homelessness in a Federally Organized State – the Case of Austria

Evelien Demaerschalk, Nana Mertens, Koen Hermans, BE: Integrating a Street Count and Extensive Service-based Homelessness Count

 

Seminar 2: Fidelity of Housing First (Room: TBD)

Chair: Volker Busch-Geertsema, DE

Ashley Ward, Samara Jones, Stephen Gaetz, CA: Validation of a Brief Fidelity Self-Assessment Tool for Housing First (HF) Interventions for Youth: Pilot Testing

Riikka Perälä, Saija Turunen, FI: Adapting Housing First. Exploring Stakeholder Perspectives on Adaptations to the Housing First Model in Four European countries

 

Seminar 3: Understanding and Addressing LGBTQI+ Homelessness (Room: TBD)

Chair: Freek Spinnewijn, BE

Ana Dresler and Mauro Striano, BE: Housing Exclusion among Sex Workers in Brussels. Quantitative and Qualitative Data Concerning Trans* people and Men Having Sexual Relations with Other Men in Exchange of Money or Services in Brussels

Claudia Steckelberg, DE: LGBTIQ+ and Homelessness in Germany - Queer Perspectives, Experiences and Needs

 

Seminar 4: Representations and Perceptions (Room: TBD)

Chair: Masa Filipovic Hrast, SI

Magdalena Mostowska and Ewelina Biczyńska, PL: The Public Memorialization of Homeless Deaths

Simone Helleren, UK: Stigma and the Front-line Worker: How Our Homelessness Systems Reproduce and Challenge Stigma

 

Seminar 5: Women’s Homelessness I (Room: TBD)

Chair: Isabel Baptista, PT

Dora Welker, HU: Shared Domestic Abuse Refuge in the Age of Housing First

Timo Weishaupt, DE: Female, Homeless, without a Safety Net? A Critical Perspective on How the Welfare State Protects Homeless Women

 

Seminar 6: Housing Instability and Evictions (Room: TBD)

Chair: Nóra Teller, HU

Bart Put, Emma Hens, & Inge Pasteels, BE: Lacunae in the Prevention of Evictions in the Flemish Private Rental Market: The Perspective of Social Service Providers

Miroslava Hlinčíková, SK: Families without Stable Homes in Continuous Change. How Does the Welfare State Approach Families During Uncertain Times in Slovakia?

 

Poster Session (Room: AULA) | 17h30-18h45

 

Focus session (Room: Auditorium): “Talk with us, not about us” | 17h30-18h00

Participation of people with lived experience of homelessness in housing activism and homeless services in 21th century Hungary.

Gyula Balog (HU), Katalin Gyöngyösi (HU), and discussion with colleagues with lived experience of the Hungarian  “City is for All” housing advocacy group

 


Main Programme - 13th September

 

Poster Session (Room: AULA) | 09h00-09h30

 

Seminar Session Two | 09h30-11h00:

 

Seminar 7: Data Collection Methodologies II (Room: TBD)

Chair and discussant: Lars Benjaminsen, DK

Laure-lise Robben and Koen Hermans, BE: Homelessness Duration and Recurrence in Belgium: An Exploratory Cluster Analysis of Administrative Data

Veera Niemi and Elisabetta Leni, FI: Unlocking Insights on Homelessness Through Integrated Administrative Data: A Methodological Framework for Researchers in EU Countries

 

Seminar 8: Implementation of Housing First (Room: TBD)

Chair: Volker Busch-Geertsema, DE

Caterina Cortese and Filippo Sbrana, IT: Housing First in Rome: a Community Project Experience

Lisete Cordeiro and Ana Maria Oliveira, PT: Implementation of Housing First in Portugal: contributions to the community integration of homeless people

 

Seminar 9: Migration and Homelessness I (Room: TBD)

Chair: Mike Allen, IE

Zoé Canal-Brunet, Jacques Pisarik, FR: Barriers to Housing for People in Emergency Accommodation in and around Paris: The Role of Administrative Status

Ashwin Parulkar and Daniel C. Farrell, USA: Integrating Migrant Refugees in New York City into Society amid National and Local Policy Challenges

 

Seminar 10: Health and Homelessness (Room: TBD)

Chair: Nicholas Pleace, UK

István Sziklai and Kata Miklós, HU: "System Deficits in Everyday Life" - On the Situation of People Living in Homelessness and with Psychiatric Illness and Mental Disorder in Budapest, and their Support Systems

John Cowman, IE: Counting Housing Needs among Individuals with Mental Health Difficulties in a Mental Health Inpatient unit in Dublin

Alex Bax, Theo Jackson, UK: Barometer of Homelessness and Inclusion Health

 

Seminar 11: Women’s Homelessness II (Room: TBD)

Chair: Masa Filipovic Hrast, SI

Freya Marshall Payne, UK: Homelessness in Women’s Life Histories: Lessons about Cultural Silences, Trauma and Support from the Testimonies of Women with Lived Experience

Heather Williams, UK: Inverting normative ideas of ‘home’: Multiple Exclusion Homelessness (MEH) women, in the UK, choosing the visibility of the street as their safe spaces

 

Seminar 12: Challenges of Designing Research Methods (Room: TBD)

Chair: Nóra Teller, HU

Daniel Hoey and Laurie O’Donnell, IE: The Value of the PAHRCA Methodology in Engaging People with Experience of Homelessness in a Long-term Research Project

Zsolt Temesváry, CH: Data Collection Dilemmas Among Hard-to-Reach Homeless People: The Case of Eastern European Homeless Roma in Switzerland

 

Poster Session (Room: AULA) | 11h00-11h30

 

Seminar Session Three | 11h30-13h00:

 

Seminar 13: Data Collection Methodologies III (Room: TBD)

Chair: Lars Benjaminsen, DK

Nana Mertens, Evelien Demaerschalk, Koen Hermans, BE: Second Round of Point-in-Time Homelessness Counts in Belgium

Sarah Coupechoux, FR: Data Collection Methods on Homelessness in France: A Comparative Analysis Between Two Different Methodologies

 

Seminar 14: Housing Systems and Homelessness (Room: TBD)

Chair: Nóra Teller, HU

Marie Cecile Kotyk, CA: Seeing in Colour: A Framework to Address Anti-Black Racism in Housing and Homelessness

Jan Weckwerth, DE: Precarious Housing as a Gateway into and out of Homelessness

 

Seminar 15: Migration and Homelessness II (Room: TBD)

Chair: Eoin O’Sullivan, IE

Raluca Cosmina Budian, Susanna Salvador, Ignasi Marti Lanuza, ES: Understanding Migrant Homelessness: Pathways Approach and Barriers to Housing Access in Spain

Bruno Meeus and Elisabeth Mareels, NL/BE: Homelessness, precarious citizenship, and practices of ‘forced inhabitation’ in Cureghem, Brussels

 

Seminar 16: Service Design (Room: TBD)

Chair: Mike Allen, IE

Valeria Ruiz and Alicia García Rodríguez-Marín, ES: The Early Care Approach. An Assessment of Deinstitutionalisation of Homelessness

Branagh O’Shaughnessy and Paula Mayock, IE: Recovery from Homelessness and Substance Use Disorder: A Qualitative Examination

 

Seminar 17: Youth Homelessness I (Room: TBD)

Chair: Masa Filipovic Hrast, SI

Eszter Somogyi, Nóra Katona, Vera Horváth, HU: What Were the Outcomes of the Housing Led Programs for Young Homeless People in Hungary?

Nia Ffion Rees, UK: "It started at home": A Critical Examination of Family Mediation as an Intervention to Prevent Youth Homelessness

 

Seminar 18: Reflections on Housing First (Room: TBD)

Chair: Freek Spinnewijn, BE

Ides Nicaise, Eveline Teppers, Luigi Leonori, BE: Person First: Towards Person-Centered and Integrated Services for Homeless People with Mental Health Issues

Nicholas Pleace, Joanne Bretherton and Deborah Quilgars, UK: The Lived Experience of Housing First: Qualitative  Research in the UK

 

Poster Session (Room: AULA) | 13h00-14h00

 

Seminar Session Four | 14h00-15h30:

 

Seminar 19: Definitions of Home & Homelessness (Room: TBD)

Chair: Nicholas Pleace, UK

Martin Wagener, Nicolas De Moor, Noémie Emmanuel, BE: Between Alternative Living-Models and Housing Precariousness in Rural Wallonia – Questioning Frameworks of Homelessness

Julia Wygnańska and Małgorzata Kostrzyńska, PL: Definition of a home by people experiencing homelessness in Poland

 

Seminar 20: Housing Transitions (Room: TBD)

Chair: Eoin O’Sullivan, IE

Krista Kosonen, FI: Transition from Supported Housing Unit to Scattered Site Housing

Clíodhna Bairéad, IE: Irish Housing Dynamics: Insights from a 6-Year Time Series Analysis of Social Housing Assessment Records and Housing Assistance Payment Tenancies

 

Seminar 21: Structural Challenges and Homelessness Strategies (Room: TBD)

Chair: Kjell Larsson, SE

Shmulik Szeintuch, IL: Homelessness strategies in European Union Member States: The state of play in 2024

Eszter Somogyi, Nóra Teller, Balázs Váradi and Veronika Vass-Vigh, HU: Barriers to Moving to a Housing-Led System in Central and Eastern Europe

Franca Viganò, IT: Representations of Homelessness in Social and Health Planning in Italy. Implications at the Local, Regional and National levels: the cases of Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna

 

Seminar 22: Welfare Arrangements and Homelessness (Room: TBD)

Chair: Volker Busch-Geertsema, DE

Soshiro Yamada, Matthew D. Marr, Yusuke Kakita, Gakuto Kawamura and Hiroshi Goto, JP: The Sustainability of a Stable Life after Leaving Homelessness in Japan

Gregg Colburn, US: Homelessness is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns

 

Seminar 23: Youth Homelessness II (Room: TBD)

Chair: Melanie Redman, CA (TBC)

Naomi Thulien and Mardi Daley, CA: Transitioning Youth Out of Homelessness 2.0: A Pilot Rent Subsidy and Identity Capital Intervention for Youth Exiting Homelessness in Canada 

Jörg Dittmann, Cyril Boonmann, Nils Jenkel and Delfine D'Huart, CH: Fragile housing of vulnerable people. On the connection between homelessness and care leaving

 

Seminar 24: Dimensions of Homelessness (Room: TBD)

Chair: Masa Filipovic Hrast, SI

Beth Stone, Emily Wertans, UK: Disability and homelessness, An identity or a label? A critical analysis of terminology in the UK

Sarah Cooke, Rachel O'Connor, Lydia Hutchings, Chris Fox, UK: Evidencing the Impact of Strengths based Working on Long term outcomes

 

Plenary Session II (Room: AUDITORIUM) | 16h00-17h30

Chair: Volker Busch-Geertsema, DE

John Sylvestre, CA: Expert Perspectives on the Evolution of Housing First

Ruth Owen, BE: 15 Year's Work on Ending Homelessness in Europe: An Honest Assessment

 


 

Poster Presentations

 

Nienke Boesveldt, Thalia Iola Suranyi Correll, Marie-Louise Janssen, NL: A Minority Stress Analysis of LGBTQ+ Homelessness in the Netherlands

Laura Phillips-Farmer, UK: Homelessness Experiences by Voicemail: How Cisgender-Heterosexual and LGBTQ+ People Narrate Their Homelessness in the Absence of Stakeholder

Nasibeh Hedayati, FI: Migrants’ Pathways into Homelessness in Finland’s Capital Region

Sasha Eykyn, UK: Homelessness at the Intersection of Complex Systems: Using Institutional Ethnography to Understand Refugee Homelessness Prevention

Korina-Electra Mylonaki, EL: Women’s homelessness: Improving housing outcomes for women sleeping rough in the UK

Sara Lannin, Ivana Keenan, Tanya Blyth and Elizabeth Peña, IE: Life After Care: A Descriptive Study on Navigating Housing Stability and Support for Youth Exiting Care

Noémi Vajdovich, HU: The Territorial Dimensions of Health Care System for Homeless People

Hayley Swanton IE: Learnings from the Support For Tenancy And Recovery Targets Project (START): Housing and Support for Mental Health Service Users (MHSU)

Ida Nilsson, SE: Factors Associated with Self-Initiated Moves During the Formal Eviction Process

Gloria Puchol, Radia Ben Ghazala, Juan Manuel Rodilla, Carmen Montalba ES: Analyzing Homelessness Response Database using AI

 

 


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