“There are 14,000 people in need of accommodation” in the Lyon metropolis, indicates the general director of Alynea

For the first time in its history, the Samu social de Lyon (Rhône) launched a call for donations to deal with the emergency. Asked about the motivations, Pascal Isard, general director ofAlyneaexplain : “What motivated this unprecedented initiative is a situation of equally unprecedented gravity. Currently, there are 14,000 people in need of accommodation (…) in the territory of the Lyon metropolis. C It’s twice as much as five years ago.” According to him, “we cannot let this situation continue”.

“Babies are sleeping outside”

Marie-Charlotte Garin, MP ecologist-NUPES du Rhône, spent Thursday night in a school in Lyon alongside a homeless couple and their children. This night, she claims to have experienced it “with great anger”. “It is not normal that in a country like France, we have 2,822 children sleeping on the street”she regrets, before mentioning “sorting by the worst”. She specifies: “Today, in the metropolis of Lyon, the vulnerability criterion to immediately shelter children is that you must have a mother and a child who is less than a year old.“The parliamentarian deplores that “children and babies sleep outside” in Lyon, as elsewhere in the country.