Almeida and Aena Agree to Conduct a Census of the Homeless Sleeping in Barajas to Give Them Attention

The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, and the president of AENA, Maurici Lucena, have met today after two months since their last technical meeting. Despite the fact that at that time faces have not been seen, they have been exchanging reproaches about who is responsible for the fact that at the airport of Barajas-Adolpho Suárez they are spending more than 400 homeless people daily. These are the data that gives an independent study c…

The identification will be carried out by an entity that will select the corporation responsible for managing the airports, which will maintain the access controls to the terminals Read

Aena and the City of Madrid reach an agreement to tackle the situation of homelessness at Barajas airport. The Fresno social consultancy, specialized in studies for third sector entities, will carry out with the financing of Aena an individualized census of those housed in the terminals in order to be able to "act in the case of each person", according to the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, after the meeting held this Thursday to un…

Homeless people sleep every night at Barajas airport despite Aena controls, despite the time restrictions imposed, fruitless so far.

The presence of hundreds of homeless people sleeping at Barajas airport has triggered the umpteenth political dispute between the Government of Spain and the authorities of the City of Madrid over the management of the situation. But it has also shown the poorly disguised aporophobia that some of the main media of the right, who have instrumentalized this unfortunate situation to which more and more people are forced in our opulent – but unequal…

The crisis of the nearly 400 homeless people sleeping at Adolfo Suárez-Madrid Barajas Airport has opened the door to collaboration between Aena and Madrid City Council, led by José Luis Martínez-Almeida. In an interview on Antena 3, Aena president Maurici Lucena advocated a "short cut" to overcome the differences that have marked months of exchanged statements, pointing out that the debate was "poisoned" at the institutional level, while technic…