Connecting communities, creating PATHS to homes for refugees
PATHS works with trusted property owners and partner NGOs to provide affordable housing opportunities to refugees in Belgium.
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Match people to homes
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Help refugees navigate
Are you a refugee seeking support to access safe and stable housing?
Contact an NGO
Explore NGOs providing housing support through the interactive map and contact one of them.
NGOs submit your profile
Once you connected with an NGO partner, use their support to register your profile within the platform.
NGOs apply for housing
The NGO you contacted will consult with you and apply for an available housing listing on the platform.
Social map of housing actors
On this social map, you can find a range of actors providing housing-related support and/or information services. To better understand the type of assistance offered by each organisation, you can filter the results by categories of support.
If you are interested in integration support services for refugees beyond housing, please consult this service map, developed within the framework of the RISE project, funded by the EU.
Not all of these services are able to provide immediate or short-term housing solutions!
Access to public social housing and private social housing schemes such as social rental agencies (SVK/AIS) often involves waiting periods that can extend over several years, depending on the region in Belgium.
Still, early registration remains highly recommended. It is a necessary step to secure more affordable housing options in the medium to long term. Moreover, being registered in the social housing system can grant access to additional forms of financial support, such as rental subsidies.
Therefore, even in situations of urgent need, being informed about these mechanisms and registration is a crucial investment in their longer-term housing stability.
Social map categories
Specialised housing support services
Provide housing related support, guidance and mediation.
Examples include:
- AiPL (Brussels)
- APL (Wallonia)
- Orbit network members (Flanders)
General social support services
May provide housing related support within the framework of broader social or integration-related support services.
This may include integration actors.
Examples include:
- CAWs (Brussels, Flanders
- BAPA (Brussels)
- Agentschap Integratie, AMAL, ATLAS (Flanders)
- CRIs (Wallonia)
Social housing
- Includes both public and subsidised private 'social' housing through AIS/SVKs that act as intermediaries.
- Provides affordable rental housing, conditioned to low income and vulnerabilities, however with very long waiting lists.
Housing information services
Offer rental information on the most common needs of tenants, including information specific to the needs of newcomers.
Diaspora organisations
- May offer housing support services.
- Provide information, translation, and mediation to facilitate access to housing
- Community based assistance
- Referral to other organizations
Financial support mechanisms
- Financial support provided through rental deposits and rental subsidies.
- May be subject to registration in social housing systems.
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Testimonies
"When we were given a place to live, I could see the joy on my children's faces."
Keita (tenant)
"In this line of work, you meet so many people—from all walks of life, all backgrounds, and all cultures—and that’s what truly enriches you."
Cedric (landlord)
"There's nothing more reassuring than having a home and knowing you have a place to sleep."
Dieudonné (tenant)
"If you have a home, you have everything."
Massoud (tenant)
"It is friendship that you give, but receive a thousandfold in return."
Anita (landlord)
Our objectives
30+
Partner organizations
200+
Housing listings on the platform
100+
People find a home
