Ile-de-France. Launch of a "pilot scheme" for women on the street

Valérie Pécresse announced the creation of a pilot scheme to welcome and monitor women on the street as part of the cold weather plan. It will come into effect from December 1st, in partnership with the Red Cross. The goal: to get women out of the street.

LR President of the Ile-de-France region Valérie Pécresse announced Thursday the launch from 1 December of a "pilot scheme " for hosting and monitoring women on the street as part of the cold weather plan. "We are going to set up a pilot scheme for the region this winter with a follow-up of these women, not only on housing, but on integration, childcare, health and hygiene," explained Valérie. Pécresse on RTL.

"It will be in a building of the regional council that we will realize this pilot in partnership with the Red Cross for about fifty women, perhaps more if it is possible, and perhaps at the headquarters of the region," he said. she added, adding that the purpose of this device, which will be added to "usual emergency accommodation" , is "to succeed the release of these women on the street" .

"You do not see them because they are hiding"

The president of the Ile-de-France region wishes to push "a cry of alarm" on "a growing phenomenon of ultra-precariousness" of these women on the street, "sometimes very young girls family breakdown, sometimes pregnant women, women who have just given birth, who are coming out of motherhood with young children " .

"We need to put in place a specific device because they pose issues obviously totally specific to health, dignity, security. These women, you do not see them because they hide, because they are afraid, " said Valérie Pécresse.

The Town Hall of Anne Hidalgo open to women SDF

Some 6,000 places in emergency housing are ready to be open to homeless people in Ile-de-France in case of extreme cold, with a total target of 7,000 additional places this winter, announced in mid-November. prefect of region Michel Cadot.

In mid-October, PS Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, announced that she would open town halls of the capital to the homeless this winter, including the City Hall, specifically dedicated to homeless women, a welcome initiative. on the left but associated with "demagoguery" on the right.