The housing "social bomb" has exploded due to the "scale and seriousness" of the crisis in 2023, warns the Abbé Pierre Foundation. Access to social housing "has experienced a sudden drop", notes the report.
A total of 2.6 million households are waiting for social housing, but people living on less than 500 euros per month have paradoxically seen their success rate decrease from 22% to 12% between 2017 and 2022. This barely visible "slum" France, which subjects "more than a million people" to "very difficult" living conditions, remains the "poor relation of public action"