Homelessness and Housing Exclusion in Europe:
Challenges and Opportunities for Research and Policy
The European Parliament recently passed a Written Declaration “calling for an
ambitious EU homelessness strategy and support to Member States in their efforts
towards ending homelessness” (FEANTSA, December 21, 2010). The Written
Declaration comes on the heels of a consensus conference on homelessness held
in Brussels, in which researchers from the European Observatory (some featured
in this volume) made the moral and empirical case for urgent and strategic action
by all member countries of the EU. This leadership has proven to be critically influential
as the European Commission moves forward with its antipoverty goals for
2020. This timely volume will help bring further momentum to this cause, by framing
much of what has been learned, and many of the important questions yet to be
addressed in this highly complex, multinational context