Councilman Jose Garcia Murcia IU-Green group says there are still many important situations of need among the victims of earthquakes and that each passing day there are new cases, so the call requesting an urgent meeting of the Bureau for Development.
Councilman IU-Green recalled that since the 27th of December last year there has been no meetings of the Bureau and that urgent need to review the situation for, depending on your financial, reach new areas of aid, among which we should include some general for families who are displaced from Lorca, and other particularized according to a detailed case study.
Murcia Garcia has said that yet, incredibly, there are some families who wander from one place to another or from one house to another without finding permanent housing after earthquakes.
IU-Greens want to reveal right now the opportunity to consider the full extent the right to adequate housing, and in this regard requests the maximum effort to the city of Lorca to detect cases and to existing solutions, given that situations is not attributable directly to earthquakes, so that only the action of the Bureau for Development should strengthen the coverage of the Department of Social Services.
In relation to the municipal shelter pedestrians manages Caritas, the councilman believes that now is a fundamental resource to cover situations of extreme need.
However, we must denounce the conditions in which it is, as it suffered considerable damage in earthquakes and has not yet proceeded to repair, which results in unused rooms and has the service is greatly reduced.
In this regard the hostel, Councilman Garcia Murcia proposes that, in current circumstances, it is necessary a modification of the terms of use to allow stays over 3 days as a people in need.
Source: IU-verdes Lorca