Six more shelter places for homeless people due to the rain

Six more places to sleep under a roof. The Department of Social Services of the Cádiz City Council has activated a temporary accommodation reinforcement for homeless people given the forecast of rain in the coming days. The places are in a guesthouse in the city and will be available from this Monday, November 9 until Thursday, 12. The aim is to offer an alternative for spending the night to those who are on the street and find themselves in a situation of greater vulnerability in the face of bad weather. It is a measure that the City Council regularly implements when episodes of meteorological instability are announced. To access any of the overnight resources, both municipal and subsidised, a prior technical assessment by Social Services professionals is required. That assessment serves to analyse each person's circumstances and decide which resource is most appropriate in their case.

The city now has more than a hundred accommodation places distributed among different facilities, as detailed by the City Council. At the start of the term there were 20 places to spend the night in the municipal shelter, with deficiencies in its facilities, and guesthouse places were only made available in winter. The municipal shelter on plaza Macías Rete has reopened after a comprehensive renovation with 22 places and renewed facilities. The 20 places at the subsidised guesthouse, which were previously offered five months a year, are available all year round. Added to that network are the 22 places at the Setenil de las Bodegas centre, the 23 at Caballeros Hospitalarios and the overnight resources of the Centro Fermín Salvochea. The future reception and reintegration centre on calle Soledad, with 22 places, is expected to be added, designed for people in a second reception situation and with individualised social support and intervention.