A Buenos Aires minister responded to Jorge Macri for people in street situations: “Nobody is there because they choose it”

Launched as the sole pre-candidate of the PRO for head of government, Jorge Macri referred in recent statements to the homeless people in the Federal Capital. And he affirmed that while he cannot “force” them to go to the city’s hostels, he also cannot “accept that they own the public space.” Today ATMs have become the studio apartment of some, appropriating some sectors of the City. We have to raise the bar a little and recover that outside for the neighbor. Because maybe nothing happens to you, but many people feel insecure in the face of that reality. Before his statements, his counterpart of Human Development and Habitat, María Migliore, admitted that the number of homeless people in the district grew, although he attributed it to the “crisis” that the country is going through. ” What Jorge is transmitting has to do with a problem that is growing and real: if we look at the number of people who are homeless at this time, compared to last year, there are 30% more people on the street,” he said. She noted that the issue goes beyond a “revenue issue.” He mentioned in that sense that there was an increase in consumption after the Covid-19 pandemic.” The street is not a place to live, it is good that these people can come to the centers so that they can start a job to rearm their life project, “he said, although he noted that they have “limits” to intervene, such as the Mental Health Law. “Recognizing that a person who is homeless can also be affecting the right of a middle-class person in the City, it seems to me that it is a conversation that is good to put an integrality and not enter into one and the other. With the ATMs, as well as with Aeroparque, we work together because there is a problem. Nobody is there because they choose it, there we have to have a social policy that accompanies, “he said. Jorge Macri and María Migliore, during a tour of the Barrio Rodrigo Bueno neighborhood. The minister acknowledged that the number of homeless people grew by 30% compared to 2022. Someone needs to use that service and that is disabled, so there is a problem that we have to solve with a comprehensive approach and see how we can solve everyone, “he said. And he insisted: “I don’t think anyone chooses to live in that place, the street is not a place to live, definitely. When a person came to live on the street, a lot of things were broken before. It’s not just a matter of revenue.”

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