Spain’s First comprehensive National Homelessness Strategy

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The first Spanish “Comprehensive National Homelessness Strategy 2015-2020” was adopted in November 2015. Its objective is to reduce the homeless population from around 23,000 in 2015 to 18,000 by 2020. It is unclear how reaching the targets of this consensual and innovative reform will be funded, while interregional coordination of housing policy remains problematic.

Authors: Gregorio Rodríguez Cabrero and Vicente Marbán Gallego