Overcoming Homelessness and Housing Exclusion
Germany has set a goal to end homelessness and housing exclusion by 2030 and is launching a national action plan to achieve this (Coalition Treaty between SPD, Bündnis90/Die Grünen, and FDP; 24.11.2021).
With the coalition agreement of the new federal government, the long-standing demand of the National Federation for the Homeless in Germany (BAG W) for a “National Strategy to Overcome Homelessness and Poverty in Germany” is set as a task for the legislative period 2021-2025.
The current estimates of the BAG W on the number of people experiencing homelessness in Germany for the year 2020 show that this is urgently needed: the total number of people experiencing homelessness has increased from 237,000 people in 2018 to 256,000 in 2020. If the number of recognized refugees living in homelessness is added, the total number of people experiencing homelessness in Germany is even around 417,000.
