Five large French cities are taking the State to court to denounce its “deficiencies” in emergency accommodation

Socialist and environmentalist mayors are calling for “an overhaul” of a system that is “running out of steam”.

Cities against the State. The environmentalist and socialist mayors of five large cities announced, Thursday February 15, that they would take the State to administrative justice to denounce its “deficiencies” regarding emergency accommodation and claim “a redesign” of a system “breathless”.

THE “an observation has been made for months, even years, with extremely clear warnings” on emergency accommodation and “a system today that is unsuitable, insufficient, inefficient and absolutely unworthy”declared the EELV mayor of Strasbourg, Jeanne Barseghian, in an online press conference with her environmentalist counterparts from Bordeaux, Grenoble and Lyon, and socialist counterparts from Rennes.

Around 330,000 homeless people

Referring to the latest report from the Abbé Pierre Foundation, which counts 330,000 homeless people in France, she denounced a system “breathless”, claimed his “redesign” and regretted “the deafening silence of the State” Who “never responded” to the letter they sent to him in December with Anne Hidalgo, PS mayor of Paris.

Two months earlier, at the beginning of October, these six cities had also filed informal appeals before their respective prefectures, which remained a dead letter, they deplored, explaining that five of them had decided to refer this time to the administrative courts on which they depend. to deposit “contentious compensation claims”. Paris is not joining this new approach.