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Social exclusion of homeless people in Hungary

Social exclusion of homeless people in Hungary. Tímea Potvorszki Ferenc Kvasznicza Bálint Tétényi. History of homelessness in Hungary. Homelessness was recognized as a social problem around the age of system change . Increase in the number of homeless people was due to:

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Social exclusion of homeless people in Hungary

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  1. Socialexclusion of homelesspeopleinHungary TímeaPotvorszki FerencKvasznicza BálintTétényi

  2. History of homelessnessinHungary • Homelessness was recognized as a social problem aroundtheage of system change. • Increaseinthenumber of homelesspeople was due to: • Increaseinhousingexpenses • Elimination of dangerous of workavoidance • Shutting down many accommodations of skillesworkers • Sociologicalfactors: poverty, unemployment, alcoholism, drugs

  3. Statistical data of homelesspeopleinHungary

  4. Sociologicalcharacteristics of homelesspeople Groups of homelesspeple • Averageage of homelesspeopleisbetween 38-44 • 75% of homelsspeopleisbetweentheages of 30-60 • Peoplewhoareover 60 years old ale representing 25% ogtheoverallHungariansociety • In the past 10 yearsthenumber of homelesspeopledoubled and theyarenow 25% of thewholehomelesssociety • Homelesspeoplearemoreeducatedthantheaveragepeople • Termination of state education • Peopleinbadmentalconditions • Long lasting group of homelesspeoplewhoare on the street for morethan 10 years • Addicted (to drugs, gambling) • After a divorce • Because of thedeath of mainearner

  5. Thestructure and institutions of thesocial system inHungary Basic social services: • Catering, Home help providing, helping families, community-based services, helping addicts, psychiatric patents low-threshold services, support service, signalling homecare, day care (elderly handicapped people, addics, homeless), street social work. Welfare institutions: • In case of welfare institutions they can provide nursing care, rehabilitation, residential or temporary placement services either for disabled people, or for addicts, or for retired people or for homeless people PROBLEMS WITH THE CURRENT SOCIAL SYSTEM

  6. Government role inpreventinghomelesspeopleexclusion • Government decree to develop a Medium Term Action Plan with the aim of reducing the number of homeless people living in the streets, strengthening the safety of housing, preventing the homelessness and developing the supply system of the homeless people. • To support the housing of homeless people and expand their institutional care,. • Treatment of permanently sick homeless people • Development of professionalrecommendation • Developing freeaccommodationinthenodes • Implementinginvestmentsin public areas and developrestingplaces • Establishingconsultative body withaim of handlingthehomelessness • Consideringthecauses of housing for homeless and to promoteemployment • Establishing a team to considertheeconomic and legal conditionsconcerninghomelesspeoplesituation

  7. BMSZKI • The BMSZKI is the biggest organization in the capital of Hungary, in Budapest and in the Middle-Europe region still the one of the largest organizations. The BMSZKI pays attention to the consequences and the statistics what can be found on their webpage like a document about the last 40 +20 years related to the homeless people in Hungary, and analizing the causes of being out on the street.

  8. BMSZKI program • GyőriPéter’s ‘Opening to the street’ program (2007) • Elements: • Prevention • Integration – EQUAL Program • Open services • Vandorut (Fregolization) • Deliverence of thecases • Falimilarfaces • FET • Extended street • Instead of warmingrather a centre • Access hostel

  9. TheHungarianMalteseCharity Service • The Hungarian Maltese Charity is making its activities int he Karpatian Basin in Hungary. Its 20 years long past have created solutions for problems int he social and health care sphere, these are recognised part of the entire system. In the Humanitarian field they collected several experiences with Romanian and Yugoslavian aid projects. Their task is to give their experiences to those who are in the need. They have foreigner friends from whom they get help, especially in the first years.This leads them to participate in international activities, however this is not their main task.

  10. Programs of theHungarianMalteseCharity Service • Laundry – 2007 • The Happy Street Boys – 2010 • Patrons of Miklos street – 2010 • Table tennis competition for the homeless people in Komárom – 2010 • Religious journals and saplings donated in Gyula – 2010 • Bikes are collected in Szeged – 2010 • Dinner for homeless people – 2011 • Where to ‘put’ the homeless people? – 2011 • Miskolc – 2012 • Winter shelter on the bus station – 2012 • 40 tons of cover – 2012

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