Kravetz: “I don’t agree with giving food to a homeless person”

The Secretary of Security of Buenos Aires, Diego Kravetz, said that he does not “agree” with the residents of the city of Buenos Aires giving food to people in street situations, considering that this action “accommodates them in poverty.” I do not agree that you, as a neighbor, come down from your house with food to give to the person in a street situation, because you accommodate him in poverty,” Kravetz said in radio statements. Along these lines, the official added that the hostels offered by the City “are uncomfortable because they structure life differently from what you are used to in solitude.” In addition, he said that people who live on the street “are going to be stuck” in “marginality” if the residents of the City help them to be “comfortable in poverty.” You feel better because you gave him a plate of hot food, the person will value him, but we will not be able to take him out of that non-virtuous circuit,” he argued. On the other hand, the chief of the Buenos Aires Police said that the head of a cardboard collector “is very different” from that of the rest of those who live in the City: “His way of thinking is very lonely. The life of a neighbor who is a cardboard collector and who makes his life outside of his work is quite different from other neighbors who do not cardboard.” In that sense, he considered that this way of being is “understandable because of the situation they are experiencing” but it is not “ideal for the coexistence of all. I assure you that the person who works so many hours stirring up someone else’s, a break in the head happens to him,” he said.

Original source in Spanish