The City Council of Totana has urged the Government of Spain to develop, and collaborate with the Autonomous Communities and the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces, a program for Prevention and Attention to Homelessness in the future State Housing Plan. which was unanimously approved in full, has been carried out in compliance with the provisions of the National Comprehensive Strategy for the Homeless.
This should include, among others, housing assistance for the homeless, support for the development of HousingFirst programs - aimed at the eradication of extreme street homelessness - and the financing of rehabilitation works for the collective accommodation infrastructure of the care network for the homeless.
The National Institute of Statistics indicates that, in Spain, 23,000 people are in a situation of homelessness and make use of specialized resources.
But also, according to the organizations of the sector, there are at least 8,000 more people who would be outside the care network and who live and remain, in a stable way, in the streets.
The characteristics and life stories of these people are diverse, but they all share the same situation: they do not have a home, a home.
However, and paradoxically, housing policies have not paid attention to the phenomenon of homelessness, so that those whose situation of exclusion is defined by the absence of housing, are not a priority group for policies precisely aimed at favoring access to the right to housing.
In fact, there is a tool such as the National Comprehensive Strategy for Homeless Persons, which the Government of Spain approved in 2015 to respond to the situation of this group by giving housing an important role in ending homelessness.
The strategy highlights "the involvement of the administrations with housing competence to facilitate the access of the homeless to public or private housing", but little has been done by the administrations to put an end to this phenomenon of homelessness , which is booming, and the figures prove it.
