the Abbé Pierre Foundation deplores a lack of “transparency” and “a form of haste”

“It’s not going very well“, launches this Wednesday on franceinfo Manuel Domergue, director of studies of the Abbé Pierre Foundation. Since mid-March, the government has asked the prefects to create “regional temporary reception areas” to welcome the homeless in Paris, in order to “unclog accommodation centers” from Ile-de-France as the Rugby World Cup and the 2024 Olympics approach.

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“We don’t want to suedevelops Manuel Domergue, but if it’s badly prepared, that people are badly supported, it won’t achieve the objective of finding better living conditions for homeless people“. Even if there were consultations, “a few months ago between most national associations and the government on this subject“, the director of studies of the Abbé Pierre Foundation wants to remain very “vigilant“.

Lack of transparency

“On the concrete implementation, there is not a very great transparency“, explains the director of studies of the Abbé Pierre Foundation”and a form of precipitation, as in Rennes or Strasbourg“. Manuel Domergue pleads for real support, if people wish, to settle in another city with help to find “education, work or accommodation“.

“Putting people on buses in a more or less constrained way without informing them, that worries ushe explains. However, we have the first feedback in this direction: people who realized that they were going to live in Toulouse and who turned back on the road“.

For the director of studies of the Abbé Pierre Foundation, this system has made it possible to find “solutions“for asylum seekers who have been experiencing it for longer, but it is not”not adapted to the quantified objectives assigned to the prefectures“.