The Île-de-France was in turn placed on Tuesday alert "cold weather" for housing homeless, announced the prefecture of Ile-de-France, while the snow arrived in the morning on the capital.
Seven other departments (Cantal, Ardennes, Haute-Marne, North, Eure, Seine-Maritime and Var) had activated their plan "cold weather" Monday in the evening. Tuesday, 24 departments of the center and the north were always placed by Météo France in orange vigilance for snow.
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298 additional accommodation spaces. The "cold weather" plan allows the opening, on the decision of the prefects, additional accommodation places according to the temperatures felt and the situation in each department. In total in Île-de-France, 298 "cold" places (including 116 in Paris) were mobilized on Tuesday, in addition to the 5,360 emergency shelter places already opened (including 2,619 in Paris) since November 1st, as part of the winter plan.
Increase of the number of listeners of the 115. The marauding teams, pedestrian, transported, nocturnal of Samu social of Paris, the city of Paris and associations were also reinforced. "They will go to meet all the public and in the less accessible areas including the Bois de Vincennes or the banks of the Seine," said the prefecture of Ile-de-France in a statement. In addition, the number of people listening to the 115 (emergency number for the homeless), constantly saturated, has been increased to answer the most urgent requests.
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Every evening, 105,000 people are accommodated in accommodation centers in Île-de-France. Some 7,524 winter reinforcement places were identified in the region and 645 places (including 260 in Paris) made available in the night stops, structures hosting the homeless late at night. In France, 146,800 places of accommodation are currently open - 5,900 more than the previous year.