The regional prefecture announced the withdrawal of the extreme cold plan this Friday, December 23. The plan allows for more places to open to house the homeless.
The cold plan ended up in the capital “due to warmer temperatures”, specifies a press release from the regional prefecture. It had been activated on December 12 and allowed the opening of “1,500 additional emergency accommodation places in Île-de-France, including 400 for the benefit of the SIAO (le 115, ed.) of Paris”.
The prefecture, on the other hand, indicates that it will maintain its mobilization towards people in great precariousness and the homeless by leaving a room open in the Paris event center Porte de la Villette.
It had been requisitioned in the night between Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 December so that looters could send homeless women and children there. There are 200 seats available.
In October, homeless groups estimated the number of homeless children in France at around 2,000.
Around 45,000 emergency shelters are open in Île-de-France (200,000 in France). In Paris, 2,500 people were housed when the plan was launched.
This revocation comes as mayors and leftist elected officials have warned about the fate of street children. On Dec. 18, these elected officials published a column summoning the housing minister to hold his “Engagement” while in September he had expressed his opinion “want” not see “children on the street” this winter.
“Mister Minister, will you keep your commitment to children sleeping outside?”challenges the EELV mayor of Strasbourg Jeanne Barseghian to the address of Olivier Klein minister in charge of housing.
This text broadcast on social networks is supported by the mayors of several major cities all classified on the left, Anne Hidalgo (PS) for Paris, Grégory Doucet (EELV) for Lyon, Eric Piolle (EELV) for Grenoble, Mathieu Klein (PS) for Nancy or even the municipal councilors of Villeurbanne (metropolis of Lyon) or Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis).
By October, a dozen left-wing mayors had already campaigned to reject the reduction in the number of emergency accommodation places in 2023.
Source: AFP
