Housing
Promoting access to decent long-term housing for vulnerable people, and combatting energy and water poverty.
The rising costs of housing, energy and water represent a real challenge for many people. Attentive to the needs of the most vulnerable, the King Baudouin Foundation endeavours to enable the homeless and poorly housed to have access to decent housing and it fights against energy and water poverty.
Our activities
- we provide financial support to organisations in the sector that enable vulnerable people to get access to housing
- we develop and implement a strategy of social investment that focuses on housing for the homeless and single-parent families
- together with the Platform for fighting fuel poverty, which brings together all actors concerned by this problem, we develop recommendations and each year publish the Barometer of Energy and Water Poverty
- and we contribute to providing an inventory of the homeless and poorly housed with a view to attracting the attention of government bodies and citizens regarding the reality these people face and the measures to be undertaken.
Housing is part of the programme Social justice & poverty
Calls for projects
Housing Reno-Hope Award
A recognition for organisations creating additional housing through renovation for people in vulnerable situations
Selection announcedGrantees
Youyou
Housing, social and community development, psychosocial support and circular economy for vulnerable families.
Université Catholique de Louvain - CIRTES
Projection census Wallonia
KU Leuven
Update extrapolation homelessness
Publications & data
Partnerships, missions, specific initiatives
Census of Homeless People 2023
Census of Homeless People in 2023.
Census of Homeless People 2022
Census of Homeless People in 2022.
Census of homeless people 2021
Census of homeless people in South-West Flanders, the BraViO frontline zone, Charleroi and Namur, 2021
Funds and philanthropic tools
Community Land Trust Brussels (Friends of Fund)
Philanthropists support CLTB which buys land in Brussels for the construction of social housing, focusing on low-income families.
Hestia Fund
The Fund is committed to providing quality housing for people in need, supporting social economy initiatives and allocating loans to African entrepreneurs.
Gilbert Tuts (Fund)
Support humanitarian and health aid in the countries of the South (animal husbandry, care for sick children). In Belgium, support the most disadvantaged, especially the homeless.
Press Releases
Homelessness: establishing numbers to better fight the problem
Results of homelessness counts, organised at the end of 2021 on the initiative of the KBF in Charleroi, Namur, the southern part of West Flanders and the Vilvoorde area.
Counting the number of homeless people in order to come up with effective solutions
Stories
The search for somewhere to live: yes, but not alone!
Housing
This photo was taken before the COVID-19 crisis. "The ‘sliding tenancy’ reassures owners and increases the opportunities for vulnerable people to find somewhere to live."
More than a roof over your head
Housing
In late 2019 Zinab, from Syria, moved with her children into a home in Boechout. A good reason for a festive diner.