Open AccessAnalysing the effects of Covid-19 on homelessness in Spain during the first quarantine
Author(s) -
Raluca Cosmina Budian,
Ligita Šarkutė
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of new trends in social sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2547-8842
DOI - 10.18844/ijntss.v5i2.5422
Subject(s) - covid-19 , accommodation , face (sociological concept) , quarantine , focus (optics) , political science , housing first , sociology , economic growth , psychology , medicine , mental illness , mental health , economics , social science , psychiatry , virology , physics , disease , pathology , neuroscience , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , optics
This study aims to reflect the difficulties encountered by homeless people and homelessness in general, in the face of the crisis due to Covid-19, focusing on the situation in Spain. The paper describes the different responses carried out by different entities, both Spanish and international when dealing with homeless people. The study explains how the global solution of accommodation in different reception centres or hostels for homeless people, is not a solution that protects this group, but quite the opposite. To this end, we are committed to a model that has been in full development since the 1990s, the Housing First model as well. In conclusion, we focus on the importance of institutional coordination when offering a response to homelessness, regardless of the area where we are, with special attention to the Housing First model as a measure to be considered in the long term. Keywords: Covid-19; homeless people; homelessness; housing; shelters.