Together, let's end homelessness !

Year after year, the same alarm is sounded. In the field, we are no longer surprised, but we keep repeating the same mantra: above all, we must not get used to it. Because behind this figure, let us not forget, there are 18,800 people whose right to housing is trampled on every day, 18,800 people who face the violence of the streets and the uncertainty of tomorrow.

This alarming figure comes from the count organised last October by the Walloon Observatory on Homelessness, in collaboration with organisations in the sector and the CIRTES team (UCLouvain). It is an estimate, based on a survey conducted in three areas — Tournai-Mouscron, Huy-Waremme and the Liège basin — and supplemented with data collected in other areas in previous years.

For Street Nurses, homelessness in Belgium is not only about housing. The link between precarity and mental health often shapes whether recovery is possible. This account focuses on mental health among homeless people and what steady, street-based support can change over time