MADRID, Spain ― Day and night, Madrid’s streets are sprinkled with homeless people. Many of them spend their nights outside supermarkets, tobacco shops, churches or other institutions, with only cardboard for mattresses. Passers-by sometimes acknowledge the homeless with spare pocket change; other times, they just keep walking.Homelessness has been a growing problem in Spain since the economic crisis, which has left tens of thousands evicted, jobless and faced with poverty. In 2012, a few years after the property crash, evictions were taking place at a rate of 500 a day. An estimated 40,000 people in the country are currently homeless. …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
