Overview
- Diocesan presentations in early June 2026, using FOESSA analyses, show Málaga has over 200,000 people who fall into poverty when facing household costs and a 60% surge in informal 'realquiler' rentals.
- Cáritas branches reported big increases in people served in 2025, with Toledo assisting 19,663 people and Córdoba and Tui-Vigo recording similar year-on-year growth driven largely by housing instability.
- More than half of those helped in some dioceses are unemployed and many others work in precarious or informal jobs, leaving households unable to cover rent, utilities and basic needs after pay.
- Local Cáritas services face stretched capacity and falling in-kind donations in places such as Mendoza, forcing more purchases of food and appeals for private support to keep shelters and economatos running.
- Cáritas launched the 2026 campaign 'Elige amar. Elige comunidad' to renew community giving and expand responses that include regularization advice, job insertion training and local food programs.