Eighteen cities will identify people on the street, Thursday and Friday. For the first time, Lyon, Marseille or Bordeaux join this initiative part of Paris in 2018.
Le Monde
A census of people at the street of unprecedented magnitude must take place in the night from Thursday 20 to Friday 21 January. Eighteen cities participate. Paris, forerunner in 2018, is at its fifth edition, Metz, Grenoble, Toulouse and Montpellier had, each with its method, followed in 2019. This year, join Dunkirk, Arras, Rouen, Brest, Quimper, Lorient, Rennes, Mulhouse, Dijon, Lyon, Saint-Etienne, Marseille and Bordeaux as well as ten cities of Greater Paris – Aubervilliers, Bobigny, Bondy, Gagny, Romainville, Rosny-sous-Bois, Saint-Denis, Courbevoie, Rueil-Malmaison and, Listed at the last moment, Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis).
“In December 2020, a unanimous wish of the metropolitan advisers of Greater Paris claimed this operation, recalls François Dechy, Mayor (common list Party Communist, Europe Ecology-Les Verts and France unsuitable) of Romainville (Seine-Saint-Saint- Denis) and referent of the metropolis on this subject. It is certainly only a few pioneering cities, including seven of Seine-Saint-Denis, but also two of the Hauts-de-Seine, to different sociologies, with a poverty rate of 7 %, compared to 44% in Aubervilliers or 36% in Bobigny. “
” RECUL of 20% “
That night, teams mixing municipal services, elected, permanent associations and volunteers will be joined, again, by an INSEE enumerator. They will meet people on the street who will have to answer two questionnaires, that of the city, rather qualitative (on the state of health, the vaccine situation vis-à-vis the CVIV-19, the length of stay In the street, the use of 115 …) and that of INSEE, as used during the censuses of the general, more statistical population. “The census takes place every year with a fifth of the population, explains Muriel Barlet, Director of Demography at INSEE, and we organize, this year, the homeless, on January 20th and 21st. Solidarity is an opportunity, in participating cities, an even more reliable census by motivated people. “
“These censuses are essential for the needs of people on the street to guide public policies,” says Bruno Morel, Managing Director of Emmaus Solidarity, Vice President, Ile-de-France, of the Federation of actors of solidarity. Following the first nights of solidarity, Paris, for example, better identified the case of women and open specific structures. “In 2021, we found a decline of 20% of the number of homelessness at 2,829 – against 3,641 in 2019 and 3,552 in 2020 – but also a new and urgent need for food aid”, explains Mr. Morel.
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