Intermediate Report 2012–2013
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Intermediate report 2012–2013 The Finnish National Programme to reduce long-term homelessness (Paavo 2) 2012–2015 MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN FINLAND March 11, 2014 Jari Karppinen, programme leader 1 Contents: Abstract ............................................................................................................................................................. 3 1. Background ................................................................................................................................................ 4 1.1. Government resolution and the goals of the programme ................................................................ 4 1.2. Central findings of Paavo 1 ................................................................................................................ 6 2. Actors ......................................................................................................................................................... 6 3. Funding ...................................................................................................................................................... 7 3.1. Financiers and funding goals set ....................................................................................................... 7 3.2. Realisation of funding 2012–2013 ..................................................................................................... 7 4. Development work .................................................................................................................................... 8 4.1. Networking for Development project as a platform for the programme's development work ....... 8 4.2. The Youth Homelessness Prevention project .................................................................................... 9 4.3. Own Home project .......................................................................................................................... 10 4.4. Building the bridge to freedom project ........................................................................................... 10 4.5. Own Keys project ............................................................................................................................. 11 4.6. Voimanpesä project ......................................................................................................................... 11 5. Monitoring and assessment .................................................................................................................... 11 6. Central results .......................................................................................................................................... 12 6.1. Changes in homelessness in 2012–2013 ......................................................................................... 12 6.2. Housing and the housing support personnel .................................................................................. 14 6.3. Successful housing ........................................................................................................................... 16 6.4. Housing advice as an example of preventive work ......................................................................... 18 6.5. Cost impacts .................................................................................................................................... 19 7. City-specific review of the results............................................................................................................ 19 7.1. Helsinki ............................................................................................................................................ 19 7.2. Vantaa .............................................................................................................................................. 20 7.3. Espoo ............................................................................................................................................... 21 7.4. Tampere ........................................................................................................................................... 21 7.5. Lahti ................................................................................................................................................. 21 7.6. Turku ................................................................................................................................................ 22 7.7. Jyväskylä .......................................................................................................................................... 22 2 7.8. Joensuu ............................................................................................................................................ 23 7.9. Kuopio .............................................................................................................................................. 23 7.10. Oulu ............................................................................................................................................. 23 7.11. Pori ............................................................................................................................................... 24 8. Further work ............................................................................................................................................ 24 8.1. Mobile support for scattered housing ............................................................................................. 24 8.2. Social empowerment strategy......................................................................................................... 25 9. International cooperation ....................................................................................................................... 26 10. Communications .................................................................................................................................. 27 11. Conclusion ........................................................................................................................................... 27 SOURCES: ......................................................................................................................................................... 29 3 Abstract The intermediate report describes the starting point of the long-term homelessness reduction programme 2012–2015 (Paavo 2) and its central implementation for the years 2012–2013. The programme is a continuation of the Paavo 1 programme implemented in 2008–2011. The goal of the programme is to eliminate long-term homelessness by 2015. The central actions include allocating 1,250 housing or supportive housing units or places in treatment for the long-term homeless, developing support models for scattered housing, making the prevention of homelessness more effective, and integrating work on homelessness as a part of the work in preventing social exclusion. The programme is coordinated by the Ministry of the Environment. In addition the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health (MSAH), the Criminal Sanctions Agency, the Housing Finance and Development Centre of Finland (ARA), Finland’s Slot Machine Association (RAY), 11 cities with the largest number of homeless people and several national and local organisations and service providers are participating in the implementation. In 2012–2013, approximately €21 million in grants was awarded for construction and the procurement of dwellings and approximately €13.6 million for providing and developing services, or approximately €34.6 million in total. In addition, cities allocated funding, for example, for salaries at 50 % of the costs of support personnel in return of the MSAH grant. In the cities participating in the programme, a total of 1,057 dwellings were completed for the use of the programme in 2012–2013. There were 763 dwellings for housing units and 294 for youth housing. The planning for the completed dwellings was already mainly started during Paavo 1. In addition, a total of 652 separate dwellings were allocated for scattered housing. 142 housing support personnel were hired with 1Kaste funding and the cities' own funding and 13 employees with other funding. In addition, there were 30 housing advisers and 15 experts by experience working in the cities involved in the programme in 2013. In the programme, the development work has been centralised to the Networking for Development project administered by Y-Foundation. In 2013, among other things, 11 training events were implemented and the pilot work for scattered housing was started, and together with an extensive network of actors, the programme's follow-up survey practice was created. The survey investigated the background for homelessness and the success of housing for people living with housing support in 2012–2013. According to the answers of the survey, most of the clients were homeless before entering the service. The average duration of homelessness was 3 years and 4 months. The average duration of support periods for those who moved out of the support was 1 year and 2 months. Over one half of the instances of moving out were planned, or the client continued to live independently in the same dwelling. The most important reasons for moving out unplanned were listed as the death of the inhabitant, use of intoxicants and the disappearance of the client or giving up housing. In 2013, the number of the homeless and long-term homeless was less than during