Will ‘Housing First’ ever work?
By Marcel Hobma (participant Invetigative Lab 2023, contributor since June 2025), Niels Achtereekte, Afke Laarakker, Eline Derakhshan, Sterre ten Houte de Lange | 9 July, 2024
Give homeless people a home first, then the necessary care. That is how we will end homelessness in the Netherlands by 2030, claims the National Action Plan on Homelessness. But ‘Housing First’ has been around for almost twenty years and is hardly getting off the ground. How will they achieve this plan?
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