Thursday, November 6, 2025

14:45 - 15:45

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Based on our 15 years of experience in housing first, we consider that the core principles of independent, scattered and permanent housing, are essential to promote full community integration. Living in independent housing provides a sense of security, privacy, identity, and ownership, facilitates the involvement in community activities and the contacts with neighbors, contributing for a sense of community belonging. Scatter the apartments throughout different neighborhoods, not concentrating them in the same building or on the same street, prevents the phenomena of segregation and stigmatization and promotes better opportunities for community integration. Permanent housing makes it possible to create a stable and secure base for recovering citizenship. In this presentation we will develop these guiding principles of intervention and share lessons learned based on our ongoing evaluation on community integration.

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