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Spain has difficulties to maintain social balance, a quarter of population are suffering exclusion, some people are forced to live in the streets aided by social assistance and charity.

Since NGO estimate that in Spain at least 40,000 people are homeless, and 1.5 million families are living in substandard houses. The difference between profit that accumulates the 20% richest and the 20% poorest has grown over 30% in last years.

The Report on Social Exclusion and Development estimate that one in twenty Spanish households are affected by intense processes of social exclusion, this means over 13 million people affected. The rate of risk of poverty or social exclusion is above 29% for residents in Spain. The household incomes have fallen by 11% in four years. The Development Foundation for Social Research and Applied Sociology warns that inequality indicators are very stable over time so the situation is in danger of becoming extended to chronic.

Spain is the second country in the European Union with greater difficulties in maintaining social balance, the economic crisis is being selective with the poorest. More than 13 million people are at some kind of exclusion (employment, housing, education). Privatization, individualization and commercialization, job insecurity, political decline, the loss of references ... This is one of the greatest challenges of our time.

Social exclusion is a problem that runs silent the cities of our world. Unglamorous and large stigmatized, an unknown and uncomfortable matter wich thousand battles being waged, every day and every night.