Social policy and homelessness are not the most popular topics in the eurobubble. Despite the ambitious goals of the Europe 2020 strategy that calls for the reduction of poverty in the EU, both social exclusion and homelessness are still a harsh reality for too many European citizens. The current economic crisis has not only aggravated the situation, but it has also shown that the traditional idea of homeless - destitute people living ‘rough’ on the streets – has become outdated and that there are many other forms, including ‘hidden homelessness’, that do not show up in any of the statistics. At this Policy Dialogue, the screening of the film “The Hidden” put a human face on this phenomenon. The documentary, made by Janosch Delcker (director) and Marian Cramers (executive producer), members of a previous generation of FutureLab Europe, served as a gateway for a discussion on homelessness in Europe and the absence of a social dimension in the EU’s approach to the economic crisis, which until now has almost stubbornly limited itself to austerity and fiscal consolidation.