They urgently request a meeting.
Faced with the alarming conclusions of the Abbé Pierre Foundation report on poor housing, associations want to discuss with Gabriel Attal to find solutions quickly.
70 years after Abbé Pierre's call in 1954, they demand more actions and responses.
Thirty-four associations fighting against poverty, including Emmaüs France, the Abbé Pierre Foundation and Secours catholique, wrote a letter to the government this Thursday.
The Alerte collective, at the origin of the initiative, is requesting “a meeting to build together adapted responses which place the reality of life of the most vulnerable people at the heart of public policies”.
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The associations also express their “deep concerns about the deterioration in the standard of living of the most precarious people”.
“While the number of poor people has never been so high, associations are seeing a worsening of the social crisis caused by inflation and which is leading to a growing demand for food aid,” they deplore.
“More and more middle classes are falling into precariousness” and “thousands of children are sleeping on the streets”.
The collective points out in particular the “social emergency” revealed by the latest report from the Abbé Pierre Foundation.
To respond, he asks that the national strategy to combat poverty presented in September 2023, or Solidarity Pact, be “enriched as quickly as possible”.
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330,000 homeless people in France
According to the latest figures from the Abbé Pierre Foundation, 330,000 people are homeless in France, a figure which has more than doubled in ten years.
The report also states that 4.2 million people are poorly housed.
The poverty rate, set at 60% of median income, is 1,158 euros for a single person and 1,737 euros for a couple.
It increased by 0.9 points to stand at 14.5% of the population in France in 2021, or 9.1 million people, according to INSEE.