The number of homeless people rose by 52% last year, the figure of 693 people found sleeping rough in 2015 rising to 1,056 in September.

Assistance is being provided for more and more people, but the increase in municipal resources has only served to contain the increase in a reality which needs tackling across the board by all administrations. The figures actually show that just 10% of people receiving support from the corresponding services in the city have always lived in Barcelona, while 50% have been in the municipality for less than five years.

The new places opened up provide increasingly individual and personalised support, for instance in the specific resources introduced in recent years for women, such as La Llavor and La Violeta, and for other profiles such as young people or those with addictions.

Today’s meeting, ‘Homelessness in Barcelona. Public policies in the local sphere’, looked at these figures and the municipal action plans to tackle this growing reality.