Under the new rules, street workers “will not only have to assess the danger a homeless person while offering the option of a homeless shelter but they will be obliged to get rough sleepers to those facilities.”

The government is committed to reinforcing street social services for the homeless, and has decided to extend financing to 83 organisations providing such services until the end of next year, Czibere said.

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