Housing First for Families in Brno

Most impressive: this is the first application of the Housing First approach in the Czech Republic; the first time a randomised controlled trial is used for the concomitant assessing of success; the most comprehensive measure to put an end to families’ shelterlessness; an innovative intervention which aims high, where different groups of stakeholders act in concert so that no family needs to be without its proper housing any more. And the concerned are not segregated, but spread all over Brno, including its historic centre. The entire project has been well received, the prejudice-prone “Roma question“ has successfully been turned into a socio-political question, which is much easier to deal with. Results so far are most promising.