The executive, which had brought the number of places to 200,000 due to the pandemic, planned to finance it only 193,000 at the end of 2022 and 186,000 at the end “> Le Monde
The measure had ulcerated many mayors and associations for helping homelessness. The government finally renounces to suppress places in emergency accommodation for homeless people in 2023, as it provided so far, announced on Friday October 28 at the agency France-Presse the Minister Delegate for the City and Housing , Olivier Klein.
“After a lot of work between the government and the government majority, we decided to re -register 40 million euros on the 2023 budget on emergency accommodation. This corresponds to stabilization of the number of places for the year 2023. So the decline that was announced is abolished, “said the minister.
This announcement comes when Thursday, ten socialist and environmental mayors of major cities denounced the announced closure of accommodation places in a letter to the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, deeming “intolerable” these “Pure Rue and simple “.
There will finally be between 197,000 and 198,000 places open in 2023, promised Mr. Klein. Until then, the executive, which had brought to 200,000 the number of places in emergency accommodation during the pandemic, considered in its draft budget to finance it only 193,000 at the end of 2022 and 186,000 At the end of 2023.
The end of the “thermometer management”
“In the current situation, given in particular our desire not to leave a child on the street, it seemed important to us to have this taking into account the situation and to remain on the same level”, still declared the minister.
These will be maintained all year round, unlike the “thermometer management”, practiced before 2019, which consisted in removing places after the winter break, he also promised. “The government’s will is not to resume emergency accommodation management in the thermometer, and this position does not call into question the government’s priority to go to a new five -year plan for the Accommodation first, because our goal is to get people out of the street. “