Homelessness in Chile,

Winter is here again; consistently, it will hit the vulnerable the hardest.

Every night, 21,000+ people find themselves without a place to go or sleep with dignity and security. The main reason is apparent: Lack of affordable housing. 

Homelessness is inhuman and one of the cruelest and most degrading ways of poverty, but it is also a matter of essential rights denied.

The factors that trigger this tragedy are many, among others, the lack of affordable housing, long stories of deprivations, social exclusion, traumatic events, personal crises, mental health, addictions, etc.

Feeling unwanted or ignored is one of the cruelest and most degrading ways of poverty. Historically, people experiencing homelessness have been socially excluded, a matter of fundamental rights not fulfilled yet.

CASEN 2017-2020 shows extreme poverty doubled from 240,000 to 480,000. This statistic raises the urgency of an integrated public policy to address this social problem. The same stat shows that immigrants, women, children, and adolescents were more affected. No consistent long-term solution is possible without first solving the issue of the lack of affordable and permanent housing.
 
Currently, over 16,000 live on the streets -until a new figure is known and published by the government (CASEN) to collect data about post-pandemic, economic/social crisis immigrants ‘rants’ impact.
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