Housing First in Danmark

This report evaluates the work to expand and entrench the Housing First initiative and three evidence-based housing support methods. The central principle of Housing First is to ensure that marginalised citizens who have become homeless are given a permanent place to live at the beginning of an intervention programme, while simultaneously providing the citizen with intensive daily social support.

The evidence-based housing support methods used in conjunction with the Housing First approach are Critical Time Intervention (CTI), Intensive Case Management (ICM) and Assertive Community Treatment (ACT).

The report describes experience gained regarding the management and organisational framework, the target group for the interventions and the concrete interventions at the municipalities.

The assessment shows that both citizens and municipalities have positive experience with Housing First, but it also shows that the lack of cheap and suitable housing specifically is a serious barrier to spreading the initiative.

The assessment was carried out by SFI and Rambøll on behalf of the Ministry for Children and Social Affairs as part of the 2014 public pool of funds agreement.