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Housing is the solution to homelessness. And, conveniently, the right to decent housing is laid down in the Belgian Constitution. In 2020 there were 5,000 homeless and badly housed people in Brussels, and successive crises made the situation even worse. How is that possible?

Many of our patients - and homeless people in general - are psychiatric patients. Street Nurses always tries to rehouse them independently if possible, but mental health remains a very important issue and requires both short and long term care.

Street Nurses consider housing as an essential stage in helping people to reintegrate into society. Finding a decent home may already be a serious struggle for most people, but for homeless and rehoused patients, many more obstacles are piling up.

Access to affordable, durable homes of good quality is key to the abolition of homelessness. In this context, the Brussels government must take structural measures to get people off the street. That’s why Street Nurses, in the run-up to the 2024 elections, advocates the introduction of a quota to facilitate housing access for homeless people.

This year Street Nurses participates in the Housing Action Day movement, and our team will be present at the demonstrations on 26 March 2023, both in Brussels and Ghent. Because without durable and affordable homes there will never come an end to homelessness. That must change. Are you in?

In 2021 Street Nurses started a project with therapy dogs. Gaëlle, nurse, and her dog Walt visited people rehoused by Street Nurses. Since then, they proved useful, and now we have four dogs as “colleagues”.

At the beginning of 2023, Street Nurses is conducting a crowdfunding campaign to update and publish its handbook “Sortir de la rue » (which translates to “Leaving the street behind”). What is its purpose and why is it so important to us that it is published? Here's some insight!

The Belgian Minister for Urban Policy, Caroline Gennez, announced on Wednesday 18 January, in an interview with VRT News, the investment of 10 million in the Housing First model for the support of homeless people.

Participate in the financing of the manual "Sortir de la rue", and support the dissemination of our methodology to end homelessness.

Street Nurses in Liège made quite some headway since it started its work in Liège in 2019. There are now ten persons who are committed each day to end homelessness in the city - and their results are impressive. Ahead of its four years’ anniversary, let’s see what was achieved.

The Gazette is a publication coordinated by the Affiliation team that is currently hosted by Street Nurses and which organises joint activities to 5 Housing First projects in Brussels to promote the social re-affiliation of tenants. We are pleased to give you a small glimpse of it in this article! 

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