EUROPEAN OBSERVATORY ON HOMELESSNESS
Research Conference 23rd March 2006

Intervention Strategies on Social Exclusion and Homelessness in Europe

Dundee City Council Homelessness Strategy - The Way Forward

Dundee Furniture Project provides free or low cost furniture appliances and other household items to people who could otherwise not afford to buy them. This includes homeless people being re-housed, women fleeing domestic abuse, lone parents, young people and other low income householders. Referrals are made by Housing Officers and voluntary agencies on behalf of clients. Clients can also self refer. Dundee Furniture Project

Dundee Furniture Project Premises

Starter Packs provide a service to help relieve the poverty, suffering and distress of people who are in a condition of need, hardship or distress by providing, or assisting in the provision of, household goods with the object of improving the conditions of life for the inhabitants of Dundee generally but in particular those who have need of such facilities by virtue of their youth, age, infirmity, disability, handicap, poverty, homelessness, unemployment or social and economic circumstances. Referrals are made by Housing Officers and voluntary agencies on behalf of clients, clients can also self refer.