The Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights, Nicolas Schmit, told MEPs in the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL) on Thursday 13 January that the European Commission’s top priority in the fight against homelessness was to develop a quality database on the Platform on Combatting Homelessness.
You have to understand a phenomenon before you can act and provide a policy response, he explained. For example, the institution will implement the ‘point-in-time count’ pilot...