Some 14% of French people have encountered difficulties paying their rent in 2020, according to a report by the Abbé-Pierre Foundation published on Tuesday.

And the health crisis has aggravated the precariousness of many of them, especially young people.

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The Abbé Pierre Foundation denounces a real time bomb.

In its latest report published on Tuesday, the association indicates that last year, in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, 14% of French people encountered difficulties paying their rent or preventing the degradation of their housing.

And young people are among the most impacted, such as Anissa, a 25-year-old mother of two, whom Europe 1 has met. 

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"For a while, I spit, I scratch, I cough… It's unlivable!"

Anissa has neither the coronavirus nor a winter cold.

But she lives in a poorly insulated garage with walls lined with mold.

The smell of humidity takes its throat, and the heating does not exist.

But despite the makeshift kitchen or the dilapidated bathroom, it's either that or being on the street, she says. 

To leave and pick up her children staying with her sister, the 800 euros from the RSA will not be enough.

The young woman must find a job, but it has never been so complicated.

"I was a clothes seller, and unfortunately with the health crisis, it's closed," she says.

"I can't find just any job. It's really complicated."

"My kids don't deserve this"

For a year and a half, Anissa's home has been recognized as "undignified habitat".

She therefore no longer has to pay rent to her landlord, and should have been relocated since.

But it drags on and the young woman begins to lose hope.

"They say there are more serious cases. But leaving children and a woman in an unsanitary garage, with humidity, is it not urgent?" Asks the young woman.

"My kids are upset, they don't deserve this. They didn't ask to be there and suffer with me."

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 Anissa is now waiting for news from her social worker.

And there is an emergency: in a few days, she will have to pick up her children.

On the eve, perhaps, of a new confinement.