Dohi-Lab HL0Project

Our ‘2020 Zero Homelessness Project’ envisions:

 

• a society where no one is forced to sleep rough; and

• a city where everyone lives in a stable living environment -that is, a city that provides appropriate facilities and services for welfare, health, employment and education.

 

 

We aim to achieve the social and spatial inclusion of homeless people without any exclusion.

 

To achieve this goal, our first step is going to be the implementation of our own street counts and the operation of a database system to grab the overall picture of rough sleeping in Tokyo. We are also investigating the amount of available social resources such as care services and housing and thinking to compare it to the estimate of required resources to help existing rough sleeping population. For instance, we want to make an estimate of the number of apartment units needed to accommodate existing rough sleepers in Tokyo and clarify what kinds of services will be needed for varying rough sleeping population with different needs.

 

We also recognise the need to involve the housing and urban development sector in the efforts to tackle rough sleeping in addition to the human services sector, which has been playing the central role in addressing rough sleeping and homelessness.