- 1. EUROPEAN RESEARCH CONFERENCE Housing First. Whats Second?
Berlin, 20th September 2013 Coping tactics with Poverty and Poverty
Threat in the Context of Homelessness in the Czech Republic and in
the City of Ostrava Elika Lindovsk, Faculty of Social Studies,
University of Ostrava Insert your logo here
2. EUROPEAN RESEARCH CONFERENCE Housing First. Whats Second?
Berlin, 20th September 2013 Structure: Numbers of homeless people
in the Czech Republic. Some of the findings of a survey report
about Commercial Hostels in the Ostrava city. Strategies of coping
with poverty and poverty threat and preliminary results of the
research Poverty and poverty threat coping tactics of families with
minors in the city of Ostrava. Chosen course of action in the field
of homelessness in the Czech Republic. 3. EUROPEAN RESEARCH
CONFERENCE Housing First. Whats Second? Berlin, 20th September 2013
Homelessness in numbers No consistent data 1996 9 000 (estimation
by 169 municipalities); 4 500 (estimation by 18 hostels) (Horkov,
1997) 2004 3 096 (in Prague) (Hradeck, 2005) 2011 - 11 496 - Czech
Republic (Housing and Population census 2011, www.scitani.cz)
Indicator: People housed in emergency and mobile objects - 85 647
(counted as being housed) Taken ETHOS into account: 85 647 + 11 496
= 97 143 homeless people in the Czech Republic (0,92% of Czech
population) 4. EUROPEAN RESEARCH CONFERENCE Housing First. Whats
Second? Berlin, 20th September 2013 Housing situation with emphasis
on commercial hostels No Housing First model operating in the
country Commercial hostels considered as long term solution of
housing loss Survey report drawing on floating support workers
experiences Ostrava (Jedinkov, Pischov, 2013) unique survey
findings: 31 commercial hostels in Ostrava with over 7 000beds
available Families stay long term more than 5 years X not suitable
for long term occupancy 5. EUROPEAN RESEARCH CONFERENCE Housing
First. Whats Second? Berlin, 20th September 2013 4 main issues:
Technical parametres for long term use absent, some hostels not
even suitable for short term occupancy. Overcrowded space, shared
facilities (showers, toilets, kitchen) Short term contracts with no
occupants rights High costs, sometimes abused by landlords
Restricted access for support workers, restricted access for other
visitors 6. EUROPEAN RESEARCH CONFERENCE Housing First. Whats
Second? Berlin, 20th September 2013 7. EUROPEAN RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Housing First. Whats Second? Berlin, 20th September 2013 Commercial
hostels as creator of new phenomenon families unable to cope in
independent living, feelings of isolation and loneliness, missing
housing culture (hostel children) Associations with Goffmans total
institutions 4 ways of coping: resignation regression rebellion
colonization 8. EUROPEAN RESEARCH CONFERENCE Housing First. Whats
Second? Berlin, 20th September 2013 Coping tactics with poverty and
poverty threats by families with minors Quantitative study in
Ostrava (Chytil, Gojov, A., Gojov, V., Lindovsk, Nedomov, pilkov,
Tich, Vondrouov, 2013) Poor families and families threatened with
poverty contacted through NGOs and social work departments
Criterion 1 child under 15 yeards old, various forms of housing
situation Research sample: 262 families from the Ostrava city 9.
EUROPEAN RESEARCH CONFERENCE Housing First. Whats Second? Berlin,
20th September 2013 Coping tactics drawn from literature: Budowski,
Tillmann, Keim, Amacker (2010); Duvoux; Paugam; Gaulejac, Lonetti;
Dubet (in Keller, 2013a); van der Land, Doff (2010); Sirovtka
(2000); Leisering, Leibfried (1999); Wadswarth (2012). Combined
with phases of social disqualification (Paugam, 1991) Elaborated
into questionnaire, structured interviews conducted. 10. EUROPEAN
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September 2013 11. EUROPEAN RESEARCH CONFERENCE Housing First.
Whats Second? Berlin, 20th September 2013 Preliminary results:
Three categories: Poor families (21%) Families threatened with
poverty (76%) Families out of poverty (3%) The main criterion: Poor
families under living minimum line Families threatened with poverty
living minimum line and above + precarious employment or
unemployment of at least one adult household member or small
savings or problems with debts, mortgage payments. 12. EUROPEAN
RESEARCH CONFERENCE Housing First. Whats Second? Berlin, 20th
September 2013 Coping tactics: 48% (126) families use coping
tactics; 52% (136) of families were not selected as using any
specific coping tactics. Out of 126 families most common coping
tactics are: situation instrumentalization (22,22%), discrediting
of others (21,42%) passive adaptation (17,46%). 13. EUROPEAN
RESEARCH CONFERENCE Housing First. Whats Second? Berlin, 20th
September 2013 Not possible to generalize, but interesting links
noticed: Resignation and Colonization reflected by floating support
workers resonate with Passive adaptation and Situation
instrumentalization identified by the empirical research.
Implications: families in Ostrava living in poor conditions tending
to passively adapt to its situation? Make the situation comfortable
as possible? Distinguishing themselves as better sort? Can these be
explained by external locus of control? Who is an actor of change?
14. EUROPEAN RESEARCH CONFERENCE Housing First. Whats Second?
Berlin, 20th September 2013 Power (less) Social Work? (Gojov, 2012)
focus groups with social work departments officers in Moravia
Silasia county results: No initiation of grassroot change,
solutions and activities only on local level, within established
framework Who is an actor of change? 15. EUROPEAN RESEARCH
CONFERENCE Housing First. Whats Second? Berlin, 20th September 2013
Course of action in the field of homelessness in the Czech Republic
Platform for Social Housing - proactively seeking solution of legal
definition of social housing, trying to establish mutual dialogue
between NGO sector and the government (Ministry of Local Affairs
and Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs), includes more than 40
NGOs. Night Out socially innovative project (awarded by Sozial
Marie price for social innovation 2013) run in cooperation of
Faculty of Social Studies, Association of Shelters in the Czech
Republic and homeless people themselves. 16. EUROPEAN RESEARCH
CONFERENCE Housing First. Whats Second? Berlin, 20th September 2013
Aim: to raise and change general awareness about homelessness in an
experiential way (sleep out). Theatre of the Oppresed the most
vulnerable not being heard, empowerment. Strategical material:
Conception of working with homeless people in the Czech Republic up
to 2020 (Hradeck, Plach, Prudk, Rika, Slavek, mdov, os, Riadov)
suggests to pilot Housing First 17. EUROPEAN RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Housing First. Whats Second? Berlin, 20th September 2013 Resources:
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Berlin, 20th September 2013 CHYTIL, O., GOJOV, A., GOJOV, V.,
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