Build strategy - Activists strategy

Rehousing of homeless people during winter

1. Analysis in Charleroi (Belgium)

A lot of deserted buildings.
Too much people in night shelter (center for sleeping).
Difficulty of lasting stabilisation of people in a very long time in poverty .

2. Main idear - principle

to enable at homeless people to rent a house during winter period (november to march). They pay for rent plus automatically saving.
Intensive caring in administratives problems (find a house, to be in order with the administrations).

3. Objectives : a triple goal :

Occupying buildings who will be transformed (leasing precarious occupation).
rehousing durably homeless people.
releasing night shelter (center for sleeping).

4. Number of people targed.

1 x 5 persons who are followed by the associations.
1 x 5 persons who are followed by public strcutures.

5. A cherry on the cake of the associative approach.

Developping a collective project.