ROOF Advocacy Trajectory: securing the foundations before building the ROOF that ends homelessness
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10 May 2022By Philip Brown, URBACT Ad-hoc Expert for the ROOF network
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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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