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The Councilor for Social Rights of the City of Murcia, Conchita Ruiz, presented this morning the Project 'Housing First' (or First in the Home), in collaboration with Jesus Abandoned and for which they will allocate 75,000 euros.

It is a new form of intervention with the person, which began to be carried out in order to create a new model that works with people who are not able to move from one stage to another, suffering from the abandonment of resources and remaining trapped between the first steps chronifying the situation of homeless person.

"With this model we try to carry out one of the basic principles of Human Rights, it is about access to housing, and the group to which it is dedicated is the homeless, whose biggest problem and solution is already in his own name ", explained Conchita Ruiz during the presentation.

A novel model that will revert in the city of Murcia in positive results, also improving the efficiency of the programs implemented until now.

For this, they will be provided with a home, which will allow them to gain autonomy and normalize the situation in which they find themselves, basing the improvement on the disposition of a decent home to begin their new stage.

"In this way, the Department of Social Rights, along with Jesus Abandoned, act as a pioneer in the implementation of this program in the city of Murcia, thus demonstrating its concern for the homeless.The subsidy of 75,000 euros is transforms in this way the start-up and operation of 3 seats of this model, which will become 5 before the end of the first quarter of 2018, "the councilor has completed.

Profile of the beneficiaries

People who can access this program are people with high chronicity on the street, who may also have mental or physical illness that also makes them have to visit emergency services several times a month, may or may not have dependence on psychotropic substances and also have a more or less regular income.

The only conditions that are requested are the good neighborhood and community coexistence, being able to take charge of the payment or co-payment of the housing and maintain it in conditions, and finally accept the visits of the professionals to the housing.

In addition, the person who is a beneficiary will have to want a change in their life and since the program will be given all the prominence since there is no directive and evaluative intervention, but it will guide the process of self-meeting and intervention.

Studies conducted in other cities in Spain show success rates of over 80% with this type of intervention.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia