In Séné, in the Gulf of Morbihan, homeless people use the grinder and the hammer, with the help of social educators, to build "tiny houses", with the possibility of then living in one of these mini - green housing.
Pascal, 52, is quite proud.
He will now live in a "tiny" that he has partly furnished himself.
" It's perfect.
I have lived in a caravan before.
It's better there,” he says in his shy voice as he unveils his new “house” of around twenty m2, with shower, toilet, kitchen, mezzanine and fold-out table.
At the origin of this initiative, a call for projects from the Interministerial Delegation for Accommodation and Access to Housing (Dihal) at the end of 2020. The objective is to offer "a form of housing for very desocialized people and in great marginality", explains Simon Robitaille, who leads the "tiny" project at Amisep, a Breton association for the fight against precariousness.
From Monday to Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., these people can come and work voluntarily on the construction of a tiny, with the objective of building eight in three years.
“It's a device that should make it possible to accommodate people who don't find their place anywhere,” recalls Mr. Robitaille.
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Pascal's tiny is now completely habitable after four months of work, at a cost of around 25,000 euros.
He was chosen as tenant by the Integrated Reception and Orientation Service (SIAO) of Vannes, which will choose the tenants of the other seven houses.
Sine qua non conditions: having participated in the worksite and not finding a “classic” accommodation solution.