DIF Cautions Against Giving Money to Vallarta’s Homeless Vive Puerto Vallarta
go to original August 29, 2022

Given the proliferation of homeless people, authorities ask not to give money to homeless people in Puerto Vallarta, they assure that there are existing services that can comprehensively support these people.

As mentioned by the director of the DIF, Puerto Vallarta, José Roberto Ramos Vázquez in an interview, there are cases of homeless people who, in addition to needing money, need support with paperwork, issuance of documents or are even just looking to return. home, so they are the appropriate instance to guide them and by giving them money they are only encouraging these practices.

Currently in the city, a list of homeless people is being carried out, in which 250 people who live in this way are already counted, mainly in the downtown area, Zona Romantica, on the Sheraton beach, in the stadium, in Las Juntas, El Pitillal, Versalles, among others.

The director himself assured that despite the fact that certain sectors are against the fact that operations are carried out from time to time to offer refuge to these people and take the opportunity to integrate them into the register, it is important that they have said data, since there have been cases of people who other states have reports of disappearance and it turns out that they live in the streets of the port.

Among what he detailed, he reported that many people who live that way do so because they suffer from some mental illness, others came to work and their situation was complicated to the point that they end up on the streets, others are due to addiction problems and others because they are in transit through our state.

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