Last winter, requests for accommodation made to 115 by single women increased, according to the FNARS summary.
Precariousness hits women hard. Published on Monday, the summary of the FNARS (the National Federation of Reception and Social Reintegration Associations) took stock of the number of calls made to 115, the number dedicated to emergency accommodation requests. Between November and March, 65,000 people dialed this number.
Among them, nearly 7,500 single women. A number up 13% compared to last winter (2014 – 2015). A significant increase which worries the federation.
Young women more vulnerable
In addition to their growing number, women are “proportionately younger than the general population of callers to 115”, details the Federation in its press release. In the winter of 2014 and 2015, 28% of female callers were between 18 and 24 years old. But as the FNARS explains, this age group only concerns 16% of callers in Paris and in the 45 departments studied (1). A figure which worries the Federation which denounces a “serious insufficiency of accommodation solutions (…) and protection of these particularly fragile people”. In addition, one in three homeless women is accompanied by children with or without a spouse, according to INSEE.
However, FNARS figures show a decrease in the number of requests for accommodation (-4%). More than half of these end in failures due to lack of space.
The Federation therefore calls for “the most urgent need to build very social housing and to open accommodation (..) with social support”.
(1) The FNARS collected calls, requests and responses to 115 in 45 departments as well as in Paris, during the last winter of 2015 – 2016.
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