Yet it has drawn 37 registered partner searches in the participant portal, against 55 and 52 for the other two. More money per project, less visible traffic. Partner searches aren’t a proposal count, so read it as a signal rather than a score – but the gap is worth noticing.

The scope opens with the Commission stating plainly that current green-transition policies are not adequately addressing the housing crisis. That framing sets the bar: this is an Innovation Action, so it doesn’t fund a study of homelessness. It funds refining and demonstrating at least three housing-led approaches in at least three neighbourhoods – urban, peri-urban and rural, across different countries – that put homeless people into permanent housing as defined by FEANTSA’s ETHOS typology.

Then it stacks on the harder part. That permanent housing has to carry its own green-transition plan, with climate mitigation and adaptation built in. The approaches have to be co-created with the people they house, with specific attention to families with minor children and to hidden homelessness – people temporarily staying with family or acquaintances. Proposals have to include measures against the institutional barriers blocking access to housing. And they have to build a monitoring methodology, on the ETHOS typology, that documents effectiveness against conventional approaches – comparably across all three sites.

Eleven decoded requirements in total, ten required and one optional: synergies with the sibling BUSINESS-01 homelessness topic.

Housing First, made green, co-designed with its residents, and measured against the status quo. For €6.3 million.

Opened 5 May 2026, closes 1 December 2026. The dossier decodes each requirement in the call’s own words.