Productions
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6 October 2009
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ORF Weltjournal
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Successful policy to get homeless off the streets |
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In 2000 the Dutch city of Utrecht started with a new approach to handle the problems with homeless people. The city hall stimulated cooperation between all the different departments and organisations helping and handling the homeless and in many Utrecht neighborhoods special hostels were set-up to house the people without a roof above their head. In 2004 also Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague took over the new approach. Now Utrecht is proud to state that all the homeless are off the streets and most of them have a job or other activities. Even ‘Utrecht Underground’ is organised, a tour led by ex-homeless that explain how life was on the streets, including visiting the locations in and under the Utrecht shopping center Hoog Catherijne where they slept and used drugs.
Activities: research and set-up, planning filming day, book cameraman, accompany filming and translations.