Recommendations of the Deutscher Verein on a Housing First approach for emergency assistance with housing – concept and guide for implementation

With the recommendations of Housing First, the German Association for Public and Private Welfare (Deutscher Verein für öffentliche und private Fürsorge e.V., hereinafter ‘Deutscher Verein’) is taking up a topic that is playing a more importance role also in Germany as a new approach to help in housing emergencies. In addition to relevant developments on municipal and state levels, Housing First is also gaining in importance where federal policy is concerned. This is especially true of the national action plan agreed in the coalition agreement of the current government coalition,1 which aims to overcome homelessness by 2030 and highlights the Housing First approach in that respect.