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Good Practices for Improving Roma Access to Housing in Andalucía, Spain

Learn about the efforts of FSG, an NGO in Spain, to improve housing access for the Roma community in Andalucía through various programs and initiatives. Discover their successes, challenges, and strategies in this insightful presentation.

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Good Practices for Improving Roma Access to Housing in Andalucía, Spain

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  1. Good Practices in Improving the Access of Roma to Housing in Rural and Urban Areas Andalucía [Spain]Working Group 6 Improving Access to Housing for Roma: Good Local Practices, Funding and Legislation Prague, 2-4 February 2011

  2. What is… FSG • NGO, non-profit, intercultural… • Integral promotion of Roma Community • Employment, education, housing, health, equal treatment… • 76 local offices in Spain + work teams in Romania 1

  3. FSG Housing Area Improving life quality of Roma Community by: • Settlements and shantytowns eradication Galicia, Málaga, Segovia, Avilés… 2

  4. FSG Housing Area Improving life quality of Roma Community by: • Housing access supporting programmes: Barcelona, Huesca, Córdoba… 3

  5. FSG Housing Area Improving life quality of Roma Community by: • Resettled families supporting programmes: Murcia, Madrid… 4

  6. FSG Housing Area Improving life quality of Roma Community by: • Rehabilitation and social actions in marginal neighbourhoods León, Zaragoza, Navarra, Burgos… 5

  7. FSG AndalucíaHousing Area • 38% Roma citizens of Spain Almost 270.000 people • 8 provinces, 10 FSG offices Almería, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, Jaén, Jerez, La Línea, Linares, Málaga. 6

  8. FSG Andalucía Housing Area[CÓRDOBA] Before… 7

  9. FSG Andalucía Housing Area[CÓRDOBA] BRIDGE-APPARTMENTSPROJECT Programme for Acceptance and Supporting of Foreign Families in Social Vulnerability Situation • Who finances? • City Council of Córdoba • How? • Through a collaboration agreement • Since? • 2007 8

  10. FSG Andalucía Housing Area[CÓRDOBA] BRIDGE-APPARTMENTSPROJECT FSG Programme for Acceptance and Supporting of Foreign Families in Social Vulnerability Situation • Actions of FSG? • Searching and renting apartments • Employment and social integration projects • Supporting and monitoring families • Programme budget? • Around 17.000 € every appartment 9

  11. FSG Andalucía Housing Area[CÓRDOBA] … after Collateral results… • Spanish language courses • Employment… Difficulties • Discrimination when it comes to renting, • Ending of programme… 10

  12. FSG Andalucía Housing Area[MÁLAGA] ASPERONESShantytown Origin? 1987. Provisional for… …2 years?! Construction? Pre-fab dwellings How many? Around 260 families 11

  13. FSG Andalucía Housing Area[MÁLAGA] ASPERONESShantytown FSG Programme for Supporting and Monitoring of Resettled Families Since? ● July 2010 Ressetled families? ● 12 Where? ● Different buildings, different neighbourhoods, different towns 12

  14. FSG Andalucía Housing Area[MÁLAGA] ASPERONESShantytown Programme for Supporting and Monitoring of Resettled Families Who finances? ● Regional Government Who collaborates? ● Local Government Programme budget? ● Around 80.000 € 13

  15. FSG Andalucía Housing Area[MÁLAGA] ASPERONESShantytown Programme for Supporting and Monitoring of Resettled Families Difficulties? ● Urban pressure ● Social rejection ● Searching and finding suitable appartments ● Urgent resettlements 14

  16. FSG Andalucía Housing Area KEY STRATEGIES Local and regional Government intervention (political level, social resources,education supporting, housing…) Previous analysis of families (individualised programmes, family selection according to success posibilities…) Supporting and monitoring after resettlement Intercultural interventions Promotion of social integration (working with mass media, neighbour communities…) 15

  17. FSG Andalucía Housing Area DIFFICULTIES Keeping resultsafter ending up programmes with multiproblematic families Coordination between resources Political changes Social rejection 16

  18. FSG Andalucía Housing Area Invisible Citiesby Italo Calvino “ […]There are two different ways to avoid suffer the hell we live in everyday. The first one is easy for a lot of people: to accept this hell and become part of it until they no longer see it. And the second one, which is dangerous and demands permanent attention and learning: to search and to be able to recognize, in the middle of hell, who and what is not hell… and making it to endure and giving it enough space.” 17

  19. THANK YOU [… and sorry for my French ;]Antonio López GándaraRisponsible for FSG Housing Area in Andalucíawww.gitanos.orgfsg@gitanos.org+34 655 11 55 13 Improving Access to Housing for Roma: Good Local Practices, Funding and Legislation Prague, 2-4 February 2011

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