US EditionHomeless: Government Transferred Responsibility of Street People to Provinces
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He succeeded in modifying two articles and abrogating another of a rule of 2021 so that the national government will change the heart of the law of street situation and homeless families. What is it about? From today, the jurisdiction of this problem will no longer depend on the Casa Rosada, but will be a topic of the provinces and the City of Buenos Aires. In summary, the text published in the Official Gazette modifies Law 27,654, a rule that w…
By Luciana Rosende. Latin American Summary, June 4, 2025. The government amended by decree the law on people in street situations and passed all responsibility to the provinces. A few days after the beginning of winter, the government of Javier Milei decreed changes in the policy of assistance to indigent people. By Decree 373/2025, it passed the responsibility [...] The entry Argentina. Milei pulled the homeless out of the way: «He doesn’t care…
Last Monday, the national Government announced, by Decree No. 373/2025 published in the Official Gazette, the transfer of responsibility for the care of persons in street situations to the provinces. The decree is an amendment to Law No. 27,654 which establishes the rights of persons in street situations and at risk who are in Argentine territory and the duties of the national State towards that population. Now, the Nation redefined that it will…
By Decree No. 373/2025, the Mileist administration limited its scope and intervention in public policies aimed at street people, who will now receive assistance only from the provinces and the City of Buenos Aires. Thus, the Government abolished several articles of Law No. 27,654, which was passed in 2021 in order to guarantee rights for this and other population groups who are at risk of losing their home.
Special Rapporteurs of the United Nations (UN) sent a communication to the national Government expressing their “serious concern” about the “discriminatory measures and interventions” being carried out in the City of Buenos Aires against people in street situations and members of the informal economy, according to the Public Ministry of Defence of CABA, which had submitted a communication in 2024. The analysis by the UN was made public on the sa…
For the Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, Balakrishan Rajagopal, and the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty, Olivier De Schutter, the measures taken “suggest a pattern of criminalization” of street people, rather than addressing their “systemic socio-economic problems by providing access to adequate housing, social assistance, employment programmes and ways for vendors to transition to the formal labour market.” The formal request for commun…
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