The number of people expelled from the former B9 institute in Badalona, Barcelona, who have already been relocated by the Generalitat and social entities This Sunday, it stands at 153, six more than this Saturday, after the efforts made this Sunday at dawn.
The Minister of Social Rights and Inclusion, Mònica Martínez Bravo, explained in RAC1 that the desire of her department is to continue working with other administrations and social entities to find accommodation for people expelled from the institute who They find themselves in a particularly vulnerable situation.
On December 17, the Mossos d’Esquadra evacuated B9, which housed approximately 200 people. The building once housed around 400, but many of them They left the old institute the days before to police action.
According to data from the Generalitat, the Department of Social Rights and social entities They managed to relocate 35 people on the 23rd; on the 24th, another 20; and between Christmas Day and Friday, nine more, which were added to the 83 already accommodated the previous days. The councilor explained that to these figures are added the six people who were rehoused this Sunday, which means that the number now stands at 153 people.
Accommodation for the most vulnerable
Martínez Bravo recalled that after the expulsion from the institute, his department carried out a register of the most vulnerable people, approximately 150 people. The ministry is currently working on verification of data and situations recounted so that these people can find shelter. Today, he stressed, work is underway to “try to determine who is most vulnerable, who needs support and how to help as many people as possible.”
The councilor pointed out that some of the people relocated are in the municipalities around Badalona. “Given the circumstances, all possible measures have been activated” and places have been offered “if possible, some outside” this city. “But our commitment is that those who reside in Badalona can return. And work with them so that with a good inclusion plan, they can return,” he stressed.
Martínez Bravo also explained that some people did not want to take advantage of the relocation measures because the centers were not in Badalona. “The device was a solution to respond to the emergency. The solution will come with an answer to a structural problem”, What does homelessness look like?
Working with social entities and administrations
The relocation work, he stressed, is carried out in collaboration with social entities and other administrations, including the Badalona City Council, and he denied that these organizations haveThey were “alone” to help to people living under a bridge in Badalona after the expulsion of the institute.
“We worked with them”, emphasized the minister, who clarified that at the first moment of the expulsion, both her department and the Health Department of the Generalitat They have already served the unemployed, with some specific references for health care. “The fight against homelessness requires structural measures, we cannot solve it in a few days,” said the councilor, who does not exclude that on New Year’s Eve there will still be people sleeping under the Badalona bridge.
And he added: “We will do everything we can, but it is a mobile group. This involves structural solutionswhich we are also doing, but which will not be immediate. There are thousands of homeless people in Catalonia. This is the darkest face of the housing crisis. But unfortunately there will be no solutions in a few days. »
Possible change of attitude from Albiol
Martínez Bravo confirmed that he maintained contact with the mayor of Badalona, Xavier García Albiol, who He asked him to “come back to the table, to assume his responsibilities towards the people expelled”. “I am optimistic. I see a change in attitude,” added the councilor, who stressed that Badalona has good technicians “to work together to reorient the situation of those who are the most vulnerable.” Martínez Bravo called for “common reflection” on what happened in Badalona: “Those who incite hate speech should think twice before inciting it,” he added.
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