| Country |
Source |
Type of Data |
Date |
Measure |
Summary |
| Austria |
BAWO (NGO) |
Survey |
1998 |
Prevalence |
|
| Belgium |
Brussels NK |
Survey |
Brussels NK |
|
Belgium 18,880 |
| Flanders SAW (NGO) |
Flanders 1998 |
Brussels 1,200 |
| Wallonia AMA (NGO) |
Wallonia 1999 |
Flanders 12,680 |
| |
|
Wallonia 5,000 |
| Denmark |
Social Appeal Board |
Registrations (s94 institutions) |
2000 (annual) |
Stock
(excludes emergency and DV shelters) |
7,365 users of S94 institutions |
| Finland |
Housing Market Survey |
Survey (annual) |
2001 |
Stock |
10,000 single homeless total
560 sleeping rough
1,600 hostels
1,400 rehabilitation hostels
700 ex-prisoners
5,700 temporary
accommodation, family or friends
800 families |
| France |
INSEE National Survey |
Survey |
2001 |
Stock |
201,000 homeless total
5,100 roofl ess
12,000 shelters and hostels
54, 000 centres d’hebergements
50,000 temporary accommodation
80,000 with friends/ relatives |
| Germany |
BAGW |
Estimates |
2000 (annual) |
Prevalence |
500,000 all homeless
390,000 non-repatriates
220,000 families
170,000 single persons
110,000 repatriates |
| Greece |
FEANTSA |
Survey of service users |
2002 |
Prevalence |
10,000 all homeless
350 sleeping rough
2,550 emergence
accommodation
3,000 institutions
2,000 squatters
1,000 boarding houses
540 refugee camps/facilities |
| Ireland |
DELG |
Tri-annual survey |
1999 |
Stock |
5,234 homeless households recorded in 1999 |
| Nearly 70% in Dublin |
| Italy |
Commissione di indagine sull’exclusione sociale |
Survey and estimation weightings |
2000 |
Stock |
17, 000 |
| Luxembourg |
CEPS (NGO) |
Survey of hostels and accommodation centres |
1996 |
Stock |
305 all users |
| Ministry for Advancement of Women |
Intake to women’s shelters |
2000 |
362 women and 365 children |
| Netherlands |
Federatie Opvang |
National Register of Clients |
2002 |
Prevalence |
26,175 |
| Portugal |
Combination |
Survey |
2000 |
Stock |
Lisbon 1300
Porto 1000 |
| Sweden |
National Board of Health
and Welfare |
National Survey of Homeless |
1999 |
Stock |
8,440 total homeless
1,200 sleeping rough
1593 total receiving
assistance
11,016 housing assistance
4677 institutional care |
National Count of Housing
Support and Institutional Care |
2001 |
| United Kingdom |
Local authorities |
Applications under homelessness
legislation |
England 2001 |
Prevalence |
England
113,590 priority need
(homeless)
75,000 living in temporary
accommodation
52,000 non-priority need
(homeless)
700 sleeping rough
Scotland
46,000 applications
34,040 accepted as
homeless
Wales
4,171 accepted as homeless
N. Ireland
12,694 applications |