Peer Review, 12 -13 November: Counting the homeless - improving the basis for planning assistance

In the City of Vienna, where reintegrating the homeless through housing programmes has been a priority for the past 20 years, the need to gather empirical data on homelessness has been singled out as a cornerstone for introducing efficient, needs-oriented measures to assist those affected. The difficulty in gathering data on homelessness is largely due to the fact that, up until now, the phenomenon has rarely been fully researched and definitions of the term vary widely across the EU.

The upcoming Peer Review, to be held in November in Vienna (Austria), is intended to enable the exchange of experience among Member States which could prove useful in developing a common methodology.

http://www.peer-review-social-inclusion.eu/peer-reviews/2009/counting-the-homeless