Caritas Serves 1,789 Homeless People in Asturias, Spain, in 2025, 10 Percent More Than Prior Year

Caritas, the social institution of the Catholic Church in Asturias, served 1,789 homeless people in the region during 2025 through its Homeless Care program. That is 10 percent more people than the previous year. Across Spain, the organization accompanied 44,475 people.

Caritas Diocesana de Oviedo manages the regional data. Based on those figures, the organization says the situation of homeless people in Spain “reflects a deep and persistent social and residential crisis that affects more and more people and families.”

According to Caritas, the main factors driving these situations include “the loss of employment, the inability to access or maintain a housing because of its high cost, evictions or forced migration processes.” The organization states that “the repeated violation of fundamental rights pushes many people into increasingly extreme situations of social exclusion,” and it names job loss, unaffordable housing, evictions and forced migration as among the causes it sees in the lives it accompanies (Proverbs 31:8-9).

Caritas says it seeks recognition of the reality these people live as “a first step towards their social integration.” The Homeless Care program, it says, “daily accompanies people with stories of pain and struggle, of loss and resistance, of falls and hope.” The organization says these are people who have too often been reduced to labels such as “homeless” or “indigent,” and who have been overlooked in ways that hide “all that they are and all that they can become.”

Caritas also cites the European Typology on Homelessness and Housing Exclusion (ETHOS), which identifies four main categories: people living on the street, people without housing, people in insecure housing and people in inadequate housing. The organization notes that people sleeping on the street or in temporary accommodation are the most visible part of the problem. However, it says, “those who survive in shacks, caravans, settlements or homes given in a precarious way remain virtually invisible.”

Source: Read the original report (translated from Spanish)