The proposed intervention takes place in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, in Central and Eastern Europe. The nation has almost 5.5 million inhabitants (2021 data) on an area of 49,000 km²; 58.8% of the population lives in urban areas. Since 2004, Slovakia has been a member state of the European Union. The capital has 480,000 inhabitants, and is divided into 17 districts.

From an economic point of view, the Bratislava region is the most developed region in Slovakia, with more than 75% of the inhabitants employed in services (trade, banking, information technology, telecommunications and tourism). However, as happens in the most urbanized areas, the capital is also a place of aggregation of people in conditions of serious marginality. Although the last official count, dating back to 2016, indicated the presence of 2,064 homeless people in the city, pre-pandemic estimates on the real number of homeless people assume a total of over 4,000 people, which has probably grown further as a result of the current social and health crisis: it is therefore assumed that about one in 100 people in Bratislava is homeless. Of these, 10% are minors, 36% are female and, according to a conservative estimate, more than 20% are affected by psychiatric disorders.