Grilo Temporary Accommodation Center is the responsibility of Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa. It can accommodate 90 people.
The city of Lisboa counts, as of this Tuesday, with a temporary shelter for people living on the streets why, despite workingtheir income does not allow them to rent or buy a house.
O Grilo Temporary Accommodation Center is a specific response “for homeless people (people who are sleeping on the street), aged between 18 and 65 years old”.
The center has the capacity to accommodate 48 peoplebut can reach 90 vacancies if the rooms are doubles, says SCML, which explains that they are intended for people who have lived on the street “for less than a year, due to their financial inability to access the housing market, although they earn income from work or training”.
“This is equipment innovative e essential which seeks to respond to the emerging need to provide temporary accommodation to people who, although they earn income, are unable to access their own housing”, says SCML in a statement.
The institution adds that in this way the installed temporary accommodation capacity of SCML and the city of Lisbon will be reinforced, complementing the existing response and diversifying responses by type of public.
The center will also “facilitate the work of the NPISA teams — Center for Planning and Integration of Homeless People and the care of the SCML Emergency Unit, now having another response to be able to refer people who are in that situation”.
According to SCML, this new response will rely on “a multidisciplinary technical team, which will contribute to the development of an integrated intervention and monitoring model, person-centeredthat is, in the individual, in the family and in the community”.
With the opening of this new reception center, the institution now has five equipment of temporary and emergency accommodation aimed at specific audiences, namely ex-prisoners, young people with institutionalization paths, women with children or people in need of therapeutic support.
Data from the Ministry of Labor, Solidarity and Security (MTSSS) show that until December 31, 2023 there were 4,871 people in a situation of homeless in the metropolitan area of Lisbon, 3,378 of which in the city from Lisbon.
