SPAIN: 23RD NOVEMBER IS THE 2008 ROOFLESS DAY (2)

"Having a home means talking about ‘my neighbourhood, my neighbours and my friends’, about a place for ‘sharing, giving and receiving’. But the roofless are deprived of this humanizing environment of personal development", pointed out Caritas, FACIAM and FEANTSA. They also underlined that "in fact, at present, there are no living policies for people with no fixed abode". Therefore, on the occasion of the 23rd November Roofless Day, the three organizations claim "public policies and welcome attitudes from the whole society and from single citizens, in such a way that the social rights of every human being may find their juridical, social, personal and community reflections in the creation or reconstruction of the right to a home". In particular, public bodies are asked to supply house policies providing for the creation of social dwellings. Moreover, those policies should be meant to include the most vulnerable groups, especially the people with no fixed abode. Finally, there were an appeal to the whole society, which was asked "to open and share its assets, and to include the roofless people in the social networks of the neighbourhood", and an appeal to all citizens, who "should not let themselves be conditioned by stereotypes". They would rather show "a real ability to welcome the people living in uncomfortable conditions through parish, municipal, cultural, social or recreational communities".