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
Zonnebloem vzw
Making patrimony last thanks to roof improvements at the house in Vaartstraat 55D, Kortrijk.
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven)
Update extrapolation homelessness
Les Trois Portes
Relocation, furnishing, and purchase of necessary household effects for single-parent families in precarious situations.
Publications & data
Partnerships, missions, specific initiatives
Fair Energy Transition for All
Empower the voices that are being left out of the Energy Transition debate and develop policy recommendations for a fairer energy transition.
Census of homeless people
Obtaining comparable figures on the extent of homelessness and the profile characteristics of the target group, with the aim of contributing to combating the phenomenon.
Census of Homeless People 2023
Census of Homeless People in 2023.
Funds and philanthropic tools
Hestia (Fund)
The Fund is committed to providing quality housing for people in need, supporting social economy initiatives and allocating loans to African entrepreneurs.
Tournai-Hertain - ASBL l'Antre-Eux-Deux (Project Account)
Conversion of a farmhouse into 12 individual or family homes for people with disabilities, the elderly, isolated people, families or young workers.
Ernest du Bois (Fund)
Support for promising engineering students as well as for projects combatting water poverty.
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.