Diego Kravetz: “Either you sleep in a hostel or you sleep in another city, not on the street.”

Secretary of Security of the Government of Buenos Aires, Diego KravetzDefended the operation carried out in the city of Buenos Aires with homeless people, and stressed that those who “have housing difficulties” You are likely to go to paradors, “Anyone who does not accept this possibility cannot sleep on the street, he will have to go somewhere else.”, It is not possible to sleep on the road“, He warned.

Road procedures carried out by the Government of Buenos Aires Controversy arose in recent weeksWith criticism from the opposition, human rights organizations and the former Human Development Minister of GCBA, Maria Migliorewho integrated management Horacio Rodriguez Larreta, In this outline, Kravetz confirmed what had been done and highlighted that the city had “725 people who were roaming around the city without a roof, somehow growing to about 9,000.”

“In 2006, the city conducted a census of the homeless and found 725 people. The last census showed 4,000 people, of whom 2,700 used the inn and 1,300 did not, in addition to about 5,000 people coming and going carrying cardboard,” he told the radio program “No la Vene”. I told. Excellent, “This is not a trivial issue,” he assured.

According to the official, this is the intention of the head of the government. george macriand security minister, waldo wolfe ,to organize the topic, “In the city, it is possible for someone who has housing difficulties to move into a hostel. Anyone who does not accept the possibility of going to a hostel cannot sleep on the street. He will have to sleep there or somewhere else other than the city. There is no intermediate point: We will not allow animal husbandry“, he concluded.

The problem of people in poverty had a strong impact on public spaces last month, when the Buenos Aires government published several spots and posts about “order and cleanliness” work in public spaces, including the expulsion of homeless people with employees. and rehabilitation included charge of the program Buenos Aires Present (BAP), george macri recognized it The operation’s proliferation strategy was “not very happy”,

,This is a publication that does not summarize everything we are doing. “Big cities are dealing with a dramatic problem of street people, as well as serious addictions and mental health conditions,” he defended after the audiovisual piece went viral and garnered negative comments.

As for the head of the government, big cities like San Francisco, Manhattan, New York, even cities that have overcome the post-pandemic crisis, are suffering from the reality of CABA. And he countered this to address the issue.”Our offering of shelters has expanded, ,Our approach is broad, humanitarian, Another thing we have created is the street childhood protocol which has reduced us from 42 old families with children living on the street to just two children who come and go,” he said.

“In social inclusion centers There are over 3,400 locationsHe mused a few days ago, “We have surveyed 3,400 people living on the street, but there are many who do not accept going to those places, they sleep on the streets, many of them have very special things with them. Are.”

For Macri, the situation of people living on public streets has its own complexity, because “60% have no connection with anyone” and they are “alone in complete loneliness”, so “there is no one working on the bond mentally. Not there.” Health”. He estimated, “The second is that 70% of people have serious addictions and mental disorders, which have led to serious conditions.”

Regarding the images that condemned city government employees, former mayor Vicente López said: “We take care of the cleanliness of the spaces that were used as bathrooms. The rest of the society deserves to live in a more organized and cleaner city.,

Kravetz also took aim at the former inspector of the Penitentiary Service, Maria Laura Garrigos, for creating an “extraordinary system of overcrowding” of detainees in police stations, which would create “a very strong criminal case”.

Yesterday, in the context of tensions between the city and the Ministry of National Security due to the collapse of Buenos Aires police stations, Jorge Macri and Patricia Bullrich announced the implementation of new modules (containers) to reduce the saturation of detainees.

“As we announced yesterday, we are working closely with the national government to obtain authorization from national and local justice to request the extradition of foreign criminals and the transfer of those detained in the city to other prisons in the country. Going to do.” Buenos Aires Justice Minister added Gabino Tapia.