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Homelessness represents a very severe form of poverty and social exclusion and is a violation of fundamental human rights. Despite progress on understanding and tackling homelessness in recent years, it continues to affect significant numbers of people in all the Member States of the EU.
The report contains the findings of the jury appointed to deliver their conclusions following the European Consensus Conference on Homelessness. The Hungarian Parliamentary Commissioner Prof. Máté Szabó was a member of this independent jury. As an official event of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the conference was co-organised with the European Commission and FEANTSA (the European Federation of Organisations Working with the Homeless), taking place in Brussels on December 9th and 10th 2010 in Brussels. The French government also supported the event.
The full report can be downloaded below.
