Efforts to tackle escalating levels of homelessness globally are largely missing from international development budgets, the first-ever analysis of international and development funding to tackle homelessness finds. This is despite evidence showing that investing in affordable, safe, and decent housing improves climate resilience, health and education outcomes.
Key findings include:
- Global development investment targeting housing policy and low-cost housing has fallen sharply since 2019. Official Development Assistance (ODA) that targets housing-related activities now accounts for less than 0.09% of total funding.
- Analysis of OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) funding finds that climate finance rarely addresses homelessness directly, whilst just 0.21% of health projects in the OECD DAC database mentioned homelessness or supporting homeless populations.
