El localisme en les polítiques contra el sensellarisme

Abstract

Public policies to deal with the increase in homelessness in Europe have been characterized by being designed and executed from a local perspective and by concentrating efforts on increasing the available temporary accommodation places. In almost all European metropolitan areas, resources dedicated to homelessness are growing in parallel with the number of people sleeping rough.The data from recent studies carried out in Barcelona show the great permeability between the situations of residential exclusion described by the ETHOS categories, the increase in transnational and metropolitan mobility of people excluded from housing and the supra-municipal dynamics of their survival strategies. These data invite us to overcome localism in the definition of the problem and generate a research agenda aimed at prevention