In Spain, the homeless crisis appears in the Madrid airport

Madrid: Every morning at 6 am, Teresa does a shower and a little exercise in search of work before returning home. For about six months, it has been a terminal 4 of the Madrid International Airport.54 -year -old Teresa, who did not want her full name to be used due to security concerns, is one of the hundreds of homeless people sleeping in the Spanish capital airport amid growing housing crisis in Spain, where the cost of rent in cities such as Madrid, country’s capital and Barcelona has increased especially rapidly.He and others who are sleeping at Adolfo Suarez Madrid -Barzs Airport – the third largest airport in Europe in 2023, according to the Eurostat – described a situation where the authorities have neither helped them find a system of living nor excluded them from the airport’s corners that the blankets, the bail, with fashion Has captured together. Soon, things may change.

Entry limit

This week, Spain’s airport operator Ana said that it would start limiting that during a low journey hours, visitors can ask visitors to show their boarding pass to enter the Madrid airport. Ana said that the policy would be effective in the next few days, but did not really specify it. It said that exceptions will be made to any person with airport workers and any passenger. Teresa, a Spanish-Akaidorian, who said that she was living in Spain for a fourth century, told the Associated Press on Thursday that she did not hear about the new policy. If they are not allowed to go back in, they and their husband will be forced to sleep in the park bench and other public places. “We can’t demand. We are squatters,” Teresa said, a controversial word is common in Spain. “What is in private property. We know about it. We want help from the authorities, but not a single one has come.”

Political fault game

For months, a political defect game between officials at various levels of the government means that homeless nests in the airport have become largely uncontrolled. In recent weeks, news reports of video and homeless population of the airport on social media made a headlines on the issue. The city council of Madrid said on Thursday that it had asked the National Government of Spain to take charge and come up with a plan to rehabilitate every homeless person sleeping in the airport. Spanish airports are overseen by Ana, a state -owned company listed in a state. A city council spokesperson said that the city government of Madrid had recently asked Ana’s officials, Madrid’s Regional Government and several national ministries to hold a meeting. “Without them, there is no potential solution,” said Lucia Martin, a spokesman of the City Council Division of Madrid, a Madrid, of social policies, family and equality. He said that National Ministries of Transport, Interior, Inclusion, Social Rights and Health refused to participate in a working group. A day earlier, Ana accused Madrid’s city officials of providing inadequate help and stated that statements of the city government about the situation of revelations left their “duties” and left homeless persons of the airport. “It’s like a dog that is chasing his tail,” Marta Cesilia Cardens of the long list of officials stated that he was told that he could help her. Cardens, originally a 58 -year -old homeless woman from Columbia, said she had spent several months at the Madrid airport.

Accurate numbers are unknown

It is not known how many people are sleeping in the Madrid airport, through which 66 million passengers were transferred last year. The Spain’s L PAS newspaper reported that a count taken by a charity group recently identified about 400 homeless people in the airport, many of whom, such as Teresa, lived in Madrid and some were employed in capacity. AP was not able to confirm that number. Meanwhile, Madrid Municipal Council officials said that the social service teams of the Spanish Rajdhani had helped 94 persons in April with relations with the city, 12 of which were rehabilitated in municipal shelters, addiction treatment centers or independent lives.

Rumor

Teresa said that she had heard about sleeping by Word from her mouth at the airport. Before she loses her job, she said that she lived in an apartment in Madrid’s Legins neighborhood, taking care of big people. He currently earns 400 euros (USD450) per month, working under the table taking care of an old woman. With earnings, Teresa said she holds a storage unit in the neighborhood in which she lived. Although the work is sporadic, she said it was still enough to cover the fees for the gym in which she shows daily, pays for transport, and buys food. According to the real estate website idealista, in the last decade, the average fare in Spain has almost doubled, the stator grows in Madrid and Barcelona. Spain also has a small public housing stock compared to several other European Union countries.

hope for the future

Teresa said that she hopes to find a job soon and leave the airport, forcing her to do whatever officers in the coming days and weeks. She said that she and her husband retain themselves, sleeping in a hallway brightly burning others, who are dotted with a sleeping bag, who were struggling with mental health problems, addiction and other issues. Teresa said at a constant dinner of airline announcements, “You adjust it a little, accept it too, but never make a habit of it.” “I hope to God that it gets better, because it is not life.”