Too many young people and families on the streets this summer. The Federation of Solidarity Actors, which brings together nearly 850 associations and organizations fighting against exclusion, and the Samu social de Paris, underlines the urgency of the situation concerning the lack of accommodation solutions in certain cities in France such as in Paris. This is the observation drawn from the last barometer 115 which studied the requests and responses of this emergency number, from June 10 to July 10, in 41 departments and in Paris.
Of the 84,468 accommodation requests made during this period in the 41 departments observed, only 37% resulted in accommodation, the report points out.
The situation is described as “explosive” in many areas, with a particularly marked increase in requests for accommodation in Paris (+ 9%), in Gironde (+ 52%) and in Bouches-du-Rhône (+29 %) compared to last summer. “In this department, the situation is very worrying with several hundred people evicted from encampments and slums in Marseille, for which no rehousing solution has been found to date, despite thousands of housingvacants “points out the document.
The first victims of this lack of places are young people aged 18 to 24 and families with children, particularly in summer. The barometer shows a worrying rise in the number of young people concerned by a request for accommodation (+ 17%), knowing that more than half of them never obtain positive responses.
More seriously still, minors also suffer from this problem: a quarter of accommodation requests concerned minors (5,328 minors out of a total of 20,845 people) between June 10 and July 10.
A housing policy to reform according to the Federation
The Federation recalls in a press release that life on the street is as dangerous in summer as in winter “with dramatic social and health consequences for people”. It asks that measures be taken by the public authorities in order to “quickly find dignified and sustainable accommodation and rehousing solutions for people currently on the street, by mobilizing empty buildings and social housing contingents”.
The gvmt releases emergency credits for the homeless: oxygen balloon welcome ms insufficient to meet the needs https://t.co/JMQgplI4Pj
– FédérationSolidarité (@FedeSolidarite) August 4, 2017
[Communiqué] Saturation of 115: will several thousand young people and families spend the summer on the streets? https://t.co/jfb3kUvoRdpic.twitter.com/HacO11MmV7
– FédérationSolidarité (@FedeSolidarite) August 1, 2017
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