The 2023 report of the Abbé Pierre Foundation is leaning on the genre of poor housing for the first time. A phenomenon that first affects single women, especially if they have children and if they have been victims of violence.
by Claire Ané
“I did not think that one could be on the street by being French, loose, without anger, Dominique (it is a loan first name). And I thought that having children would facilitate the Task to have emergency accommodation … “The young woman separated from her husband a few years after they left France, and returned to it alone, with two of their children. A time hosted by an acquaintance in Paris, she then knew the galleys of 115, the call number for emergency accommodation.
She sometimes benefited from three hotel nights. Most often, she spent the night in tent camps, “without really sleeping”. The young woman obtained a room in the accommodation center, shared with another mother and her child. But when she left to look for her third child, who was “in danger”, the center refused to host the enlarged family. She knew the street, again, before being welcomed in a T3 by the Rosalie accommodation center rendered from the Apprentis d’Auteuil Foundation, near Melun. “It’s a new start,” she smiles. She prepares the bac and then wishes to train “in the food industry, cosmetics or perhaps interior decoration”.
In its annual report, published on Wednesday 1 February, the Abbé Pierre Foundation was, for the first time, attached to describing in detail “the genre of poor housing”. Women appear there a little more affected than men by the housing crisis, “because they have fewer resources, and they live more often alone, especially when they are elderly, or alone with children”, explains The Director of Foundation Studies, Manuel Domergue.
While 20 % of the population suffers from poor housing conditions, the rate reaches 40 % for a single woman with a child, and 59 % if, like Dominique, she has three or more children. The young woman is not alone in having experienced emergency accommodation difficulties. “Ten or twenty years ago, mothers on the street with children were quickly taken care of. It is much more complicated today, for lack of places,” notes Manuel Domergue.
a Heritage gap that widens
What about access to sustainable housing? Drawing on the rare studies available, the report concludes that only mothers seem discriminated against to access the rental in the private park. In the social park, single -parent families, made up of 83 %of single women with children (s), “are slightly overrepresented in the attributions (29 %) compared to their share in demand (25 %)”, indicates the report , but this is less the case in tense areas, where these families have less the means to find accommodation in the private sector.
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