- The Barcelona City Council, HOGAR SÍ and Provivienda have signed a collaboration agreement for the next three years that will mobilize new resources for homeless people.
- "Housing Rights" seeks to promote deinstitutionalization in the care of homeless people, as well as the prevention of institutionalization.
Barcelona, November 5, 2022 - Over the next three years, Barcelona will house some 200 homeless people currently living in the city. The "Housing Rights" project, led by Provivienda and HOGAR SÍ, will be carried out in collaboration with the Barcelona City Council thanks to the agreement signed, which includes various actions. The signing of this agreement comes thanks to the financing of the Next Generation funds of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan of the Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030, which foresees a total investment of around 25 million euros throughout Spain to carry out similar projects in the cities of Avilés, Cartagena, Gijón, Madrid, Murcia and Seville and on the island of Mallorca.
In the case of the city of Barcelona, the commitment between the Municipal Institute of Social Services (IMSS), HOGAR SÍ and Provivienda involves attracting new housing on the market and providing financial assistance to house 175 homeless people. A total of 75 places will favor the process towards autonomous living for people who have been living in existing residential centers for more than three years, while another 100 places will be exclusively for people who have been living on the streets for less than three months or in one of the city's existing first reception centers. The agreement will also provide social coverage for another 18 people who are already living in a Housing First apartment in the city. In short, the importance of the project lies not only in the volume of people served, but also in the commitment to deinstitutionalization in the care of homeless people.
As a result of the agreement, the Barcelona City Council undertakes to contribute its experience and knowledge of homelessness in the city, facilitate coordination with the different professionals of the municipal services collaborating in the project and facilitate the selection of candidates to form part of each of the different care profiles, among others. Provivienda and HOGAR SÍ, for their part, will assign some thirty professionals to the project, will provide the housing and will provide the resources and socio-educational support necessary for the achievement of the greatest possible autonomy of the nearly 200 people who will benefit from the project.
About the Alliance:
Starting in 2017,HOGAR SÍandProviviendaare joining forces to develop theHousing firstmodel based on housing solutions in Spain. The objectives of this Alliance are threefold:
- Generate a dynamic of development of the model in Spain, respecting the fidelity of the original model.
- Intensify the separation between housing and treatment of people.
- Incorporate other organizations for the development of the model in territories where other entities interested in joining and following the methodology are identified.
HOGAR SÍis a social, non-profit, independent, plural and statewide entity, created in 1998. We are convinced that it is possible to end homelessness and we believe in the responsibility of facing the problem from the society, putting the focus on the problem and not on the person who suffers it.
Proviviendais a non-profit association that has been working since 1989 so that everyone can enjoy the right to housing on equal terms. From our association we want to offer housing that changes lives and creates community, responding to the residential needs, especially of people in more difficult situations.
