ROOF Advocacy Trajectory: securing the foundations before building the ROOF that ends homelessness

THE URBACT ROOF NETWORK focussed on ending homelessness through housing (First) and data collection. Nine European cities wanted to adopt and progress their engagement with Housing First as an evidence-based method for ending homelessness for people with complex lives. As the project progressed it became clear that a crucial prerequisite for the cities to make the shift, f rom rudimentary approaches to shelter to sustainable housing solutions, entailed helping change the conversation with and between policy actors. Therefore ROOF decided to engage in a process Reaof advocacy in order to inform local, national and European policy debates ending homelessness.

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