Elisabeth Borne wished on Wednesday, by visiting an emergency accommodation center for young women, to improve 115, the telephone line dedicated to the homeless, in terms of answers and listeners.
More than ever overwhelmed at the start of winter, those responsible for 115 are warning of the
“desperate”
lack of emergency accommodation places.
“We have progress to make on 115, both materially, so that there are more better answers, more listeners.
But also no doubt other devices and that is a major project for the year 2023
, "said the Prime Minister after talking with five young women hosted in a Red Cross emergency accommodation center in Paris.
Between 197,000 and 198,000 places open in 2023
The head of government also confirmed the renewal of the "Housing first" program for the homeless, the terms of which are still under discussion.
This system launched in 2017, accompanied by an envelope of 44 million euros, has enabled some 400,000 homeless people to access housing, said the Prime Minister, who was accompanied by Olivier Klein, Minister Delegate for City and Housing, and by Isabelle Rome, Minister Delegate for Equality.
In addition to emergency accommodation, which is
"a right"
, Élisabeth Borne stressed the need to
"streamline routes to find more stable lasting solutions"
and wished
“develop places in family boarding houses, social residences, rental intermediation, so that we keep this promise of “Housing first””.
Read alsoEmergency accommodation: the government renounces to cut places in 2023
The government has given up in the 2023 budget to cut emergency accommodation places for homeless people, as it had planned so far, after protests from ten socialist and environmental mayors of large cities and aid associations to the poorly housed.
The executive, which had increased the number of places in emergency accommodation to 200,000 during the Covid-19 pandemic, planned to fund only 193,000 at the end of 2022 and 186,000 at the end of 2023. Finally, between 197,000 and 198,000 places will be open in 2023. Associations fighting against precariousness expressed their fears of a
"dark year" on Wednesday.
for homeless and poorly housed people, given the record number of unfilled requests at 115, or the increase in rental charges due to the energy crisis.