Loule, Faro and Portimão will also have shared apartments to accommodate, from next year, homeless people, announced this Monday, December 14, Catarina Marcelino, vice-president of the Social Security Institute.
The protocols are going to be signed this afternoon, between the Social Security Institute, the Municipal Councils and also the Movement for Support to the AIDS Problem (MAPS) and the GATO (Grupo de Ajuda a Drugo addicts).
The ceremony will be attended by Catarina Marcelino who, in the morning, visited the future Social Emergency Housing Center, which will accommodate homeless people in a vacant building of the Regional Directorate of Agriculture and Fisheries of the Algarve, in Patacão (Faro).
The vice president of the Social Security Institute took the opportunity to announce the entry of Faro, Loulé and Portimão in the solution of shared apartments for the homeless. These three municipalities will join Tavira, Vila Real de Santo António and Lagos who have also created this kind of answers.
In total, another 35 people will be welcomed (10 in Faro, 10 in Portimão and 15 in Loulé). MAPS will operationalize everything in Faro and Portimão, while GATO will stay with Loulé.
In the municipality of Loulé there is a novelty: in addition to shared apartments, a response of «housing-first».
"It's a more permanent solution, while shared apartments have a more temporary aspect," said Catarina Marcelino, speaking to journalists.
Margarida Flores, director of the District Center of Faro of Social Security, explained that the first protocols, signed with Vila Real de Santo António, Tavira and Lagos, foresee that the «Cameras cede the apartment buildings to the IPSS».
Now, in the ones that will be signed with Faro, Loulé and Portimão will be “the institutions that will lease the spaces, obviously with the support of the Municipal Councils”, he added.
It is certain that the Social Security Institute is closely following the situation in the Algarve, with regard to the homeless.
“It is a region that requires some concern. It has a cross-border situation and we know that these regions attract a lot of movement of homeless people, in addition to the tourist attraction and seasonality of work», considered Catarina Marcelino.
Even so, the ISS vice-president said that, with the structures that are being created, the region "will be perhaps the best structured from the point of view of the response".
“We have to develop solutions and paths. At this moment, with these structures and the size of the region, I would say that we would be better off than the big cities», he concluded.
Photos: Pedro Lemos | Sul Informação
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