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"Joining in with my fellow Members’ oral question, I would like to ask the Commission to focus mainly on prevention when drafting, as soon as possible, the EU’s homelessness strategy. Homelessness is reaching increasingly disconcerting levels in all of Europe today and, as a phenomenon, can be attributed, besides the obvious economic reasons, to a more and more atomised society and the dissolution of traditional small communities. Nowadays, the problem is no longer exclusive to those who have fallen to the fringes of society through alcohol or drug abuse: in a number of EU Member States, the phenomenon is affecting an increasingly large segment of the middle classes, including many people who hold college degrees and even have, or used to have, permanent jobs. It is these people who could avoid homelessness and the desolation it entails with relatively little targeted help provided according to a detailed strategy. We must sadly note that the kind of ‘private social safety net’ that had been typical of small communities showing solidarity for their members some decades ago either no longer exists or has been largely abandoned. This is another reason why Member States should pay more attention to the marginalised."@en1
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