This Monday the last ten have left homeless that during these weeks have lived together in the Riazor shelter raised by the Council of A Coruña and in which 422,000 euros have been invested, according to the latest municipal balance sheet. The Department of Social Services will maintain the monitoring started during the confinement.
120 people have passed through the temporary shelter, most of them men. Some with alcoholism problems, others with some kind of mental illness. Circumstances that have been worked on and that Social Services will keep vigilant. Some have left pending to find a job, others will live together in apartments in the city. However, the reality is that a good part will continue on the street.
“To say that 100% of users are going to have a normalized life when they leave here is absurd, no one is cured of a chronic situation in 2 months, because they have psychiatric pathologies, addictions, etc., that do not heal in 2 months “, recognize Yoya Neira, Councilor for Social Services.
On the other hand, the municipal government of A Coruña explains that, of the 120 people who went through the triage that was carried out at the entrance of the facilities, 107 settled in the pavilion and 13 did not enter, although they were searched an alternative. Of the total number of users, 11 ended up abandoning the device, while 15 regrouped with families and 14 were helped to find a place to sleep.
Five left to join a job, two returned to the town halls where they were born and the rest “were given an option where they could stay, either in a shelter or in a room.”
No positive cases for Covid-19
“And all the time it was active, there was no case of COVID-19, except in a person who was detected to be infected in the triage and who was isolated until testing negative,” adds the local government, which explains that they were also given training and employment advice, among other issues.
The government of the Atlantic Tide had agreed to the Housing First project, which contemplates providing a housing solution as a previous step to obtaining a job. An agreement that according to Neira consumes significant resources and is not a solution in itself, although he rules out deleting it
–
