Press release – Closure of our transit shelter for homeless women: DoucheFLUX calls for its reopening

Brussels, July 7, 2023DoucheFLUX’s transit shelter for homeless women, which opened during the first lockdown, closed its doors last April after the COCOM/GGC’s grants were not renewed.

Download our public plea for a transit shelter for homeless women (.pdf, currently in French only)

DoucheFLUX was the first Brussels association to open a transit shelter under Covid in April 2020, and the last to operate one in April 2023. After several grant extensions…

OPEN CALL: More resources? More solutions!

Brussels, May 25, 2023

Following a series of incidents that endangered the safety of social workers and beneficiaries in several reception services around the Midi train station, we cried out, concerned but not without foresight: “Rapidly increasing precarity of large segments of the population and a systemic lack of solutions, that’s the explosive cocktail.”

In the face of immediate violence, the spontaneous response is one of security and prevention.…

Rue de la Bascule: a new awareness-raising tool to combat homelessness

“Many homeless people have chosen to be homeless. Many homeless people are, in part at least, responsible for their situation. And society cannot take away their responsibility to the extent that it guarantees them, no matter what they do or have done, a home!
We often hear this kind of comment. The reality is actually much more complex.

After the success of ImmenCité, the board game that helps people understand the realities of surviving on the streets, a new initiative…

Press release – DoucheFLUX launches its “Housing First” project and becomes the 6th Housing First operator in Brussels

Brussels, 14 March 2023 - DoucheFLUX, a Brussels-based non-profit organisation active in helping homeless people, is today launching its "Housing First" project, with the support of the COCOM and in partnership with the AIS of Saint-Gilles. This project aims to offer housing to the most vulnerable homeless people, with support adapted to their needs.

DoucheFLUX's Housing First project will offer highly vulnerable homeless people immediate accommodation, with no preconditions