Tampere ramps up data drive to tackle homelessness
Tampere is launching a data-collection drive to better understand homelessness and coordinate services, building on outreach that helped about 200 people secure housing and housing advice that assisted another 200 in 2026.
The drive builds on outreach that began with a regional "Own Home" project in April 2025, which reached more than 500 people at risk of or experiencing homelessness and helped about 200 secure housing. Tampere's housing advice services helped roughly 200 clients avoid or resolve homelessness in 2026.
Measures under way include expanded housing counselling, mobile multidisciplinary outreach, stronger social work for people leaving prison, and closer cooperation with private landlords to match support needs with suitable homes.
Planners and welfare officials say an adequate supply of affordable rental housing is essential. Tampere is promoting affordable production by releasing plots for lower-cost development and encouraging diverse housing across the city.
The city and the wellbeing area are preparing a practical workbook, drawing on Finnish homelessness research, legal obligations and professional experience. The aim is to standardise approaches across services and introduce the tool at the start of 2027. Local developers Elina Perkiö and Elina Pekkarinen say the next step should be permanent national structures to secure long-term progress.
The data-collection drive follows an earlier city report that single-person homelessness rose to 468 last year according to a previous city report, and it complements the Kaikkien Tampere inclusion programme launched earlier in 2026 Kaikkien Tampere inclusion programme.
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