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Orbán’s government fights with bars against homeless people
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The Ministry of Human Resources will pass their newest initiative to the Hungarian government in which they would protect the biggest underpasses of Budapest with electrically operated bars. With this step, the ministry would ensure that during the night, no homeless people would sleep or stay there.
According to hvg, the project about protecting the most crowded Budapest underpasses appeared last November. The plans stated that these places would be closed down with bars after the last underground leaves the station during the night. Before this statement, another one was released on October 15, which banned homeless people from sleeping on the streets of the capital.
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There are two aims of such projects. One is to make homeless people disappear from the streets, and two – which is the result of the first aim – is to make them move into accommodations where they would get food and beds to sleep. Although it would affect other citizens – as underpasses would not be open during the night –, the leadership of the capital strongly believes in this plan. Furthermore, the leadership of Budapest believes that bars are the only way of keeping the underpasses clean.