Budget, responsibility and tools for the work with homelessnessin Gothenburg

Target the budget to specific types of actions and specific

target groups • The City Authority is responsible for housing provision

• Grey area problems

• Opportunities to exert an influence- Planning authority- Role as landowner- City authority housing companies

• Homelessness is also a reflection of the housing market, demography and construction

• Households with debts and a poor credit record

• Newly arrived refugees

National Board of Health and Welfare surveyGothenburg: 3,302 persons

Situation Number1 Acute housing need 7172 Institution/category housing 6443 Secondary housing market 1,1434 Own arrangement, short-term 539

Number of homeless persons per 10,000 of the populationGothenburg 64Stockholm 48Malmö 80Sweden 36

Target the budget to specific types of actions and specific target groups

Tools – national

• The government has appointed a co-ordinator for the homeless who will follow up and exert pressure in the work being done by the city authority to deal with homelessness – and not just as a matter for social services

Tools – national• Social Services Act – the City Authority or the

City District is responsible for ensuring that people have a reasonable standard of living

• There should be a “roof over your head” guarantee

• The National Board of Health and Welfare publishes guidelines and general recommendations in social and healthcare matters and this is also the case with regard to homelessness

Budgets for housing solutions

• Boinvent: An inventory of households which, for social and/or medical reasons, do not have a home which the social worker considers to be the best at the present time and where assistance from the social services is needed in order to resolve the housing situation

• BoListanBolistan is a tool produced to enable a social worker to quickly locate available apartments/rooms within the City Authority’s own housing stock and among contracted organisations and companies

• Placement OfficeA service within the Emergency Social Services that helps social workers to find suitable places, either owned by the city authority or contracted

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Boendelösning utreds

Gruppbostäder

Social Resursförvaltning

Ordinarie bostadsmarknad

Vård

Socialsekreterarnas förslag till boendelösningar för 1 157 hushåll

Budgets for housing solutions According to Boinvent 01-2012

City Administration

Boplats

Local solutions in the city district

Housing under the Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments Act

Referral to the Property Management Administration – municipal contract

Housing for the elderly

Procured housing

Non-procured housing

Municipal housingManagement,

control

* Placement Office

Grey area

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Range of residential places/apartments

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Träning/referens

Kommunala kontrakt

Långsiktigt boende

Akut-drogfritt

Akut-missbruk

Källa: Social resursförvaltning, Fastighetskontoret och AB Framtiden

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52 743

367 996

54 301

393 103

46 114

411 615

39 283

426 131

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Bistånd till boende IFO -SDN Göteborg, nettokostnad 2007-2011, tkrKälla:SDNbok

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vuxna 21-år (I211)

Facts about work being done in the city to deal

with homelessness

• Property owners provide around 300 apartments each year to those who for social/medical reasons are having difficulty finding a home. The Property Management Administration sub-lets these “city authority contracts”. Following a successful trial period, the tenants are given their own contract (1½-2 years)

• The Social Welfare Allocation Committee offers around 1,000 residential places, mainly small apartments in blocks but also emergency places.

Facts about work being done in the city to deal with

homelessness

Net cost to the city districts of Individual and Family Care housing

• Total € 52,5 million 2011 (young persons € 5,1 million, adults € 47,4 million)

• Of which 74 per cent is for the purchase of a home/place• Annual cost increase 3-5%

Purchase of Individual and Family Care housing, City District – providers

• Total € 40,3 million 2011 (young persons € 3,3 million, adults € 37 million)

• 44 per cent within the City Authority, 56 per cent external• About 10% lack a general agreement

Facts about work being done in the city to deal

with homelessness

• The Social Welfare Allocation Committee provides support to NGOs working with homelessness totalling just over € 378 880 for 2012: City mission fieldwork (€ 63 518), City mission open social activities (€ 19 501), Räddningsmissionen fieldwork (€ 75 218), Räddningsmissionen café (€ 34 545), Café Trappa ner (€ 143 751) and Faktum’s social activities (€ 44 574).

Facts about work being done in the city

to deal with homelessness

• The city conducts outreach work in conjunction with NGOs (City mission and Räddningsmissionen)

• The Social Welfare Allocation Committee also funds places in the emergency hostel 35:an on Linnégatan to the amount of € 356 694 per year. The hostel is run by Räddningsmissionen. A place does not require any assistance decision and is directed at those who, among other things, do not want contact with the authorities.

A result

• The number of “vagrants” in Gothenburg – people who sleep more outdoors than indoors – is estimated at 88. The number has not increased in recent years.

Challenges – budgetary priorities for the future

• Co-ordination of city authority initiatives

• Structured collaboration with the NGO:s

• A long-term homelessness strategy needs to be formulated

• Work towards ”housing first” and floating support