To better identify and rehouse families without accommodation, several associations are launching a national network. For the deputy mayor of Paris, it is “extremely difficult” to know how many children will return to school while sleeping outside.
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In France this summer 2022, around 1,600 schoolchildren slept outside for lack of accommodation, according to figures from the Federation of Parents’ Councils (FCPE). “We would need the state to create thousands of additional places”denounces Tuesday August 30 on franceinfo Ian Brossat, PCF deputy to the mayor of Paris in charge of housing, emergency accommodation and the protection of refugees.
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In Paris, he is “extremely difficult” to know how many children will go back to school while sleeping outside, explains Ian Brossat. “What is certain is that we are regularly challenged by the associationsdevelops the deputy mayor of Paris. Each time, the city has mobilized to ensure that solutions are found.”
“It’s less a difficulty of identification than a structural lack of accommodation placescontinues the chosen one. We need the state to create thousands of additional places to prevent families from ending up on the streets. The state must assume its responsibilities because it is within its competence.”
The town hall of Paris for its part creates “every year 4,000 emergency accommodation places on the city’s heritageinsists Ian Brossat. We have set a simple rule: each time we have a building, property of the city of Paris, which is empty and which can lend itself to emergency accommodation, we make it available to the State. to make it a shelter.”
The elected official calls on the State to activate certain provisions of the law, such as the requisition of vacant buildings: “There are private buildings that have been empty for years, which could be used for accommodation.”