Le Figaro Bordeaux
Although temperatures are unusually high for January, many people are forced to sleep outside this winter.
On the evening of January 25 to 26, the third
“solidarity night”
took place in Bordeaux, in order to better understand the number of homeless people, their profiles and their needs.
The first results of this system reveal that 466 people are on the streets and 347 in slums, including 202 children.
Launched in 2018 in Paris, this
“solidarity night”
has now taken on a national scale, with several large cities such as Lyon, Marseille and Bordeaux having decided to implement this initiative from 2022.
“If this observation scale of a territory is essential, contributing to a national analysis is also essential in order to help make visible the situation of homelessness as a whole and build adapted national public policies
,” specifies the Bordeaux town hall.
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1019 people recorded in total
Renewing this operation each year allows us to
“benefit from updated and enriched data”
, adds the city, which are
“mobilized to initiate a dialogue with the partners concerned”
.
The first edition recorded a total of 858 people (561 in the streets and camps and 297 in squats) and 736 people during the second.
During this latest edition, a total of 1,019 people were recorded, whether in camps, shantytowns, in parking lots, in hospital emergencies, or even on public transport and at Saint-Jean station.
A number which brings together both the people encountered directly, in the streets, camps and slums, and the figures from the slum clearance platform, which counts 107 people in squats and 72 in a slum "
not visited for technical and technical reasons". security”
, specifies Harmonie Lecerf Meunier, deputy mayor responsible for access to rights, solidarity and seniors.
“These are all people whose access to or maintenance in dignified and safe living conditions is not guaranteed.
It is above all of them that we think
,” explains the elected official.
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A majority of unaccompanied people
The analyzes of the second edition of the night of solidarity by a scientific committee, published publicly in May 2023, highlighted that
“the non-recourse to people's rights is massive”
, with six out of ten people not accompanied by a social worker and only one in three people who use 115, the number to request emergency accommodation.
“We also see that women, in particular, use the devices less than men.
However, at least a third of adults on the street are women.
Generally speaking, less than half of the people we met used existing support systems.”
Several actions have also been initiated or implemented by the city of Bordeaux: the provision of vacant municipal real estate, the perpetuation of the daytime stop of the municipal social action center (CCAS), the installation of showers in public space and food aid measures.
“To develop solutions adapted to the most vulnerable, the city of Bordeaux's subsidy to its CCAS has more than doubled between 2020 and 2023, to reach 16.34 million euros this year
,” specifies the town hall.