Austria
State of Housing Rights
The Right to housing is not constitutionally guaranteed. However, it is established in legislation through the Austrian Social Aid Act (§20); which supports “homeless people and persons in extraordinary precarious situations” through the “provision of housing”.
Criminalisation
With regard to the laws of the individual Bundesländer, behaviour that is typically related to homelessness may be prohibited or restricted by the security land police laws of the Bundesländer as well by other laws and by-laws.
Partner(s)
Christian Perl
BAWO (Austrian Umbrella Organisation for Associations Working with the Homeless)
christian.perl(at)bawo.at
