The Tarragona City Council counted this morning that 78 homeless people live in the city, one more than in the last count that was carried out in 2021.
A total of 63 of these people are men, eight are women, and in seven cases it has not been possible to know what sex they belong to; Sixty of these people have slept on the street and the other 18 have slept in a shelter.
The initiative has been carried out by the council together with the Municipal Institute of Social Services of Tarragona (IMSST), the Network of Comprehensive Care for Homeless People of Tarragona, Civil Protection, the Red Cross, the Urban Guard and it has been a team of 80 volunteers carried out the count after touring the city between eleven at night and two in the morning.
"We work together to address homelessness and to provide a comprehensive and unified response to the complex situation that these people present," declared this morning, after the count, the Tarragona councilor for Social Services, Cecilia Magnini.
The mayor of the city, Rubén Viñuales, who participated in the initiative, has defended the importance of this count: "The main objective is to know what the reality of homelessness is in our city to continue acting. We have to find out the reasons and go to the Origin of the problem".
Viñuales thanked the eighty volunteers for their work and pointed out that the purpose of the count goes beyond numbers, because he also wants to "raise citizens' awareness about this problem."
Before the pandemic, in 2019, the balance reached 84 people experiencing homelessness in Tarragona
