The registration is “the great barrier” de homeless people to access social, health and all kinds of resources, but some property owners are demanding a surcharge of up to 100 euros per month on the price of rooms for rent to allow tenants to register in the housing, according to have warned this Thursday Creu Roja, Metges del Món and Cáritas Mallorca in the Balearic Parliament.
This has been one of the warnings made by the representatives of these three entities, Juana Lozano, Belén Matesanz and Teresa Riera, respectively, in an appearance before the Committee on Social Affairs, Human Rights and Sports.
“We are finding people who do business, landlords who tell them: ‘If you pay 50 or 100 euros more I allow you the empadronamiento.’ This is the situation we have in the Balearic Islands and we see it every day,” warned Lozano, from Creu Roja.
Precisely, Belén Matesanz, from Metges del Món, stressed that the fact that homeless people -including in this term people living on the street, but also those living in substandard housing and other situations- encounter great bureaucratic difficulties due to the fact that they are not registered.
“They find themselves in a three-month limbo waiting for a municipal inspection. This means three months in which you do not exist, you have no access to health care, education, social services, nothing,” he stressed.
Separating parents and children
Likewise, social entities have coincided in reproaching that “the response of the administration to the lack of economic resources” is to “separate parents from children”, due to the fact that there are no resources to take in entire families.
If they are left on the street, the parents, at best, are offered a shelter, and the children “can go to child protection.” “Is that really all you public administrations can do?” asked Riera.
NGOs have also warned about the increase of older people, young people and women in the profiles of homeless people
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