“It is unbearable to have families with children on the street this winter”, explains the Minister Delegate for Cities and Housing. This is a level of accommodation “never reached” in France, according to Olivier Klein.
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The government finally gives up eliminating emergency accommodation places in 2023 as it had planned so far, announced Friday, October 28, the Minister Delegate for the City and Housing. On franceinfo, Olivier Klein justifies this decision by the fact that he “It’s unbearable to have families with children on the street this winter”.
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“We have decided to increase the budget as planned in order to be able to maintain the number of places, around 197,000 places”, explains Olivier Klein. A level of accommodation “never reached” in France, welcomes the Minister Delegate for Cities and Housing. “Before the Covid we had 150,000 places, in 2017 we had 120,000, so we had already obtained a very high level of accommodation places”explains Olivier Klein
“At the same time, the government wants to launch a second Housing First plan because the main objective is to leave the streets and move towards housing.”
Olivier Klein, Minister Delegate for Cities and Housingat franceinfo
The Minister Delegate for Cities and Housing also reaffirms the government’s will regarding the five-year housing plan: “We are increasing the housing budget first by more than 40 million euros”. It is 2.8 billion euros for emergency accommodation and a housing first program which is also topped up so that, in the years to come, there will be fewer and fewer people in a emergency accommodation and increasingly with a roof over your head.”