FEANTSA Position Paper:

A European Action Plan on the Social Economy to Help Fight and End Homelessness

The social economy has become a popular answer to homelessness, providing a win-win opportunity by simultaneously providing employment opportunities to people experiencing homelessness while combatting social exclusion and providing added revenue for, or subsidising, homelessness services.

The Commissioner for Jobs & Social Rights, Nicolas Schmit, has been tasked with the responsibility of developing a European Action Plan for the Social Economy to enhance social innovation from 2021-2025. It is intended that this will bring the social economy into the socio-economic policies of the European Union and the strategies to meet the Sustainable Development Goals.

But what really is the social economy? and how can it help (or even hinder) social innovation?

Find out in our position paper, click here.