Podemos Canarias has asked this Wednesday that the "institutional void" be overcome, through which protection is not offered on the islands to more than 3,000 people who lack a home where to shelter when the population is told to stay at home in the face of a storm like Therese.
The purple formation has denounced this Wednesday in a statement the "lack of protection suffered by homeless people during episodes of climate emergency in the archipelago" and has warned of "an institutional void that leaves thousands of people out of the system", which is why it has proposed "an urgent solution that does not yet exist in the Canary Islands, while extreme phenomena increase".
"When authorities recommend staying at home, an uncomfortable question arises that no one is answering: what happens to those who have no home", a question that, in Podemos's opinion, "reveals a structural failure in current protocols, which do not contemplate a specific response for homelessness".
The party that Noemí Santana leads on the islands considers that, "in a context of climate crisis, this absence is not minor: it can mark the difference between protection and abandonment".
Therefore, Podemos Canarias proposes the urgent creation of an Autonomous Emergency Protocol for Homeless People, an initiative that would imply "the automatic activation of emergency places, the use of public facilities such as sports centers or educational centers, and the creation of a coordinated circuit between Civil Protection and social services".
Furthermore, it would entail "the creation of a prior census to facilitate the location of people experiencing homelessness during alerts, as well as earmarked regional funding that allows city councils to respond without collapsing", adds the note.
