In Denmark, as in many European countries, the number of homeless people tends to increase, due to the economic crisis. Yet it is not inevitable.
Thus in the city of Odense, the municipal authorities have launched a policy of support and rehabilitation to the homeless. This results in the housing allocation while promoting social diversity.
"The first thing said Tom Ronning, social worker, is to find expensive homes spread throughout the city. The idea is to ensure that drug addicts are not side by side, to avoid the effect 'ghetto'. Thus we made here. "
The experience in Odense can it be replicated elsewhere? Delegations from 8 European countries have recently found in the Danish city to discuss it.
Jimmy Schramm is one of those homeless supported in the municipal system.
After years on the street, he now has a home. "I was a drug addict for 19 years, he says. Now I stopped. I do not want to fuck my life up. I am 34 years old. And I have life before me. Anyway, I hope. "
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