| The mayor Paqui Pérez considers it essential to address this situation and that the City Council intervene and provide solutions to the more than 150 people who continue to live badly on the street despite the state of alarm | Councilor Paqui Pérez will defend a motion in plenary next Thursday (May 28) to demand the implementation of a municipal plan of care for homeless people in Murcia.Thus, the mayor of Cs, responsible for the areas of Seniors, Disability and Development Cooperation, will urge the Department of Social Rights to prepare a diagnosis with a gender perspective on the current situation of homeless people in the municipality; and it will also ask for the establishment of a municipal strategy for the eradication of homelessness in Murcia."It is necessary for the Murcia City Council to take action on the matter and intervene to avoid situations like the ones we are seeing during the confinement," says Paqui Pérez, who considers it a priority "to offer a solution to the more than 150 people who continue to live in the street despite the state of alarm.
""We cannot continue looking the other way," says the councilor of Cs, who, in this sense, recalls that "we know the harsh living conditions in which the homeless are, who have gained special visibility during the health crisis.
, and the municipality is no stranger to this reality.
" For the mayor Paqui Pérez, "ending homelessness must be a political commitment that we must make effective." That is why it is essential, he adds, that "we sit down to work, together with the homeless and groups and associations that work on this matter and know this reality, to establish actions capable of alleviating the serious situation suffered by hundreds of people in Murcia "
Source: Ciudadanos Murcia