The measure had pissed off many mayors and homeless associations. The government is finally giving up on eliminating places in emergency accommodation for homeless people in 2023, as it had planned so far, the Minister Delegate for Cities and Housing announced on Friday October 28 to Agence France-Presse. , Oliver Klein.
“After a lot of work between the government and the government majority, we decided to re-enter 40 million euros in the 2023 budget on emergency accommodation. This corresponds to a stabilization of the number of places for the year 2023. So the reduction that was announced is cancelled”said the Minister.
This announcement comes as on Thursday, ten socialist and environmentalist mayors of large cities had denounced the announced closure of accommodation places in a letter to the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, judging “intolerable” ces “pure and simple outcasts”.
There will eventually be between 197,000 and 198,000 places open in 2023, Mr. Klein promised. Until then, the executive, which had increased the number of places in emergency accommodation to 200,000 on the occasion of the pandemic, envisaged in its draft budget to finance only 193,000 at the end of 2022 and 186,000 end of 2023.
The end of “thermometer management”
“In the current situation, particularly given our desire not to leave a child on the street, it seemed important to us to have this consideration of the situation and to remain at the same level”said the Minister.
These will be maintained throughout the year, unlike the “thermometer management”practiced before 2019, which consisted of eliminating places after the winter break, he also promised. “The government’s desire is above all not to resume management of emergency accommodation by thermometer, and this position does not call into question the government’s priority of moving towards a new five-year plan for the housing first, because our goal is to get people off the streets. »