2024-01-08 17:07:48
Additional credits of 120 million euros will be committed to “strengthen the emergency accommodation system”while France is experiencing an episode of intense cold, announced the Minister for Housing, Patrice Vergriete, Monday January 8. “The aim is not only to create places, but to prevent people from entering emergency accommodation and to [en] get out more quickly »said the minister, who was visiting a day reception center in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.
This new envelope corresponds to 10,000 additional places, but “we don’t want to get into the space game because it would almost be more in our interest to try to shorten the delays in emergency accommodation”added Mr. Vergriete.
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The envelope will be used to respond to urgent needs, in particular to accommodate women and children on the street, whose number is estimated at 3,000 according to Emmaüs, but also to “in-depth reform of the emergency accommodation system”.
This involves, according to the minister, “better coordination with local authorities”but also by ensuring that “the fewest people can enter emergency accommodation” by preventing evictions.
Extreme cold plan launched this Monday
According to the ministry, the number of places in emergency accommodation, excluding extreme cold, increased from 198,000 on January 1, 2023 to 203,000 today, “compared to 93,000 ten years ago”.
Patrice Vergriete, once announced as being on the move, clarified on this subject that he “not having threatened to resign” but have ” Express [son] opinion on a text which is not a government text ».
The extreme cold plan was launched this Monday by all mainland prefectures. To help the inhabitants of Pas-de-Calais affected by the floods, 470 emergency accommodation places have also been opened.
Since 2017, 440,000 people on the street have also found housing thanks to the “Housing First” plan, the minister said, also recalling the “500 additional staff for social monitoring” (115, marauding, day reception, etc.) announced in November.
“It is the role of a government to show solidarity to keep the commitment of the President of the Republic, namely unconditional accommodation (…) whatever their origin, whatever their profile, whatever their situation”added the minister in reference to the access condition introduced by the immigration law of not being under an obligation to leave the territory.
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