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The municipal groups of PSOE, Murcia Now and Cambiemos Murcia will take to the plenary on Thursday a motion for the creation of a day care center specializing in the care of people in a situation of serious residential exclusion with behaviors associated with the active consumption of addictive substances and mental health problems.
According to data they have had access to, in Murcia there are around 400 homeless people, many of them with problems such as those described.
Therefore, "since we are talking about the reality of some of the most vulnerable people in our society and their welfare is public responsibility", the groups propose that they follow the model of municipalities such as Vitoria, with centers in which offers specialized low-intensity support and specifically directed to people with behaviors that require permanence in physical spaces of support and containment.
The political formations have recalled that the closure in 2016 of the day center managed by RAIS Fundación meant the loss of a dining room and rest room in the municipality that served 70 homeless people daily.
PSOE, Now Murcia and Cambiemos Murcia propose that this be joined other measures that start from the right to housing as a methodological principle and flee from the welfare model, such as those developed in Madrid, Malaga or Barcelona.
In these cities, we try to guarantee a single-person apartment in exchange for the person who enters the programs to assume an intense social support and contribute 30% of the income, if any, to the support of the home.
In other words, "it is based on the idea that the maintenance of a home and integration in the neighborhood facilitates access to health services, detoxification programs, psychological care or disability or old age benefits," they added.
In addition, they recall the importance of developing a municipal strategy for the eradication of homelessness, with citizen participation and within a table set up for this purpose, as approved in two motions in the plenary sessions of April and November 2018.
Source: Cambiemos Murcia
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