A Place to Live, a Place to Stay

Good practice guide for housing and resettlement

This publication explores how the issue of housing for refugee resettlement can be addressed in a way that ensures cities can offer places for resettled refugees and plan resettlement programmes that enable them to settle, integrate and thrive in their new cities and municipalities.
1) It provides a comparative overview of housing for refugee resettlement in Europe;
2) identifies good practice in housing for resettled refugees at the local, regional and national levels across Europe
3) makes recommendations for policy and practice development in the areas of a) national, regional and local cooperation to implement resettlement quotas, b) finding housing for refugee resettlement, and c) housing introduction, integration support and welcoming communities
4) includes case study interviews with a private landlord, municipality housing worker and previously resettled refugee; and
5) highlights opportunities for funding housing for resettled refugees presented by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) for 2014-20.