Description
Hungary is experiencing a housing crisis, which is deepened by the government’s social and economic policies. People experiencing housing poverty have little knowledge of their rights and their advocacy potential is low. Homelessness is highly stigmatized. The aim of the campaign is to make those grassroots movements visible that have fought for dignified housing in the 20th century and to inform people living in housing poverty about currently active initiatives and movements The project aims to strengthen the citizensiop of affected groups and provide inspiration for social justice organizing today. The target group will learn about the current initatives they can join as well as the the methods of effective advocacy. They will also acquire skills to start their own initiatives. We aim to reach 500 people living in housing poverty through a traveling exhibition that will be dispayed in 3 different social institutions, 30 of whom will also participate in workshops. The two-week long exhibition in a public space will reach 5000 people, 20 of whom will participate in a workshop. The target groups are people who live in public spaces, temporary shelters and workers’ hostels as well as the tenants of social and private rental housing. The size of the direct target group in Budapest is around 255,000. Around 3 million people are affected by housing poverty in Hungary today. We will cooperate with 3 Hungarian social instituitions, a historian and a designer.
Summary of project results
Hungary is experiencing a housing crisis. The aim of this traveling exhibition has been to make those grassroots movements visible that have fought for dignified housing, strengthen the citizensiop of affected groups and provide inspiration for social justice organizing today. The exhibiton, which chronicles the history of housing movements in 20th century Budapest, has been displayed in 3 social institutions and one public space for a period of 2 weeks in each location. In addition, 4 workshops and 2 additional tours have been organized to provide a deeper understanding of our topics. Through the actual exhibitions as well as through social media, we have reached tens of thousands of people with our message that it is worth organizing for housing even in today's Hungary. As the exhbition itself was put together with the active collaboration of people living in housing poverty, it has also strengthened their self-confidence and political consciousness.
Summary of bilateral results