Medellin, Antioquia
The authorities of Copacabana, a municipality in the north of the Aburrá Valley, have warned about the 120 percent increase in the number of homeless people, which went from 29 in all of 2023 to 64 in the first months of 2024.
They assure that due to the strategic location in which the municipality is located, with two national roads, and that due to the control they have carried out on street residents in neighboring municipalities, they have come there to settle.
“This occurs because the surrounding municipalities, Barbosa, Girardota, Bello, Medellín and the others that are part of the metropolitan area, carry out these operations to control the people living on the streets. That makes them settle in our municipality and we “We have to look for strategies to be able to support the resocialization of these people,” explained the Secretary of Development and Social Welfare of Copacabana, Sebastián Gómez.
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Before this panorama, The Mayor’s Office of Copacabana has the offer so that these 60 men and four women can resocialize.
Also, they have carried out beautification work for the removal of cambuches and ask citizens not to give alms to these people.
Precisely, in response to this alert that there would be transfer of street residents from other municipalities, the mayor of Medellín Federico Gutiérrez had warned at the beginning of 2024 that in the city They increased by 150 percent and there would be at least 8 thousand, Therefore, control actions are also being carried out and also accompanying those who have decided to benefit from this process in the resocialization.
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