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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! 

Is your legacy a matter of concern to you? Choosing to make a bequest to Street Nurses means extending, renewing or giving a new form to your commitment to ending homelessness. In any case, we are at your disposal to answer your questions, in complete confidentiality and without obligation. 

Winter has arrived with plummeting temperatures. For homeless people, each season comes with its share of problems. During winter it’s the cold with its most serious consequence, the risk of hypothermia. Frostbite, causing amputation is another risk, although rarer. 

As the year 2022 is coming to an end, the precariousness among the population becomes ever more pressing. That’s why Street Nurses calls upon your generosity to support our activities in favour of the most vulnerable homeless people.

Street Nurses makes its photo exhibition “Dream of a roof, wake up home” available. This new awareness-raising tool shows, in three languages, our work of caring for the most vulnerable homeless people, and how they endure their fate.

Would you like to borrow the exhibition for an event? That’s possible: for free!

During the national conference “From dream to reality: ending homelessness in Belgium”, on 14 October 2022, Street Nurses brought together homelessness professionals, politicians, and citizens to reflect on actions and concrete measures towards ending homelessness at the national level.

The day was marked by constructive and valuable discussions which can trigger the necessary political changes. In anticipation of the report on the conference, here is a summary of the discussions with pictures of the event.

On Friday, 7 October 2022, you were about a hundred to respond to the call from Street Nurses to participate in the evening and night of solidarity of Belgium Sleep Out. You did so on the spot in Brussels or online to dream together about the possibility to end homelessness.

It became a moment solidarity and self-conquest without precedent in Belgium. For your involvement and commitment: MANY THANKS!

In 2013 the first project of Housing First was set up in Brussels, inspired by American projects under that name. Today, almost 10 years later, more than 200 people in our capital city benefitted from this project. Thanks to support teams and their partners in the housing sector, they again found appropriate and affordable homes of their own. Brussels Housing First is growing. More and more new projects are being set up - and, of course, we strive to strengthen this development.