Elisabeth Borne wants to make the telephone line dedicated to the homeless more efficient.

By visiting an emergency accommodation center for young women on Wednesday, the Prime Minister thus expressed her wish to improve the 115, in terms of answers and listeners.

More than ever overwhelmed at the start of winter, those responsible for 115 are warning of the "desperate" lack of emergency accommodation places.

“We have progress to make on 115, both materially, so that there are more better answers, more listeners.

But also undoubtedly other devices and that is a major project for the year 2023, ”said the Prime Minister after having exchanged with five young women welcomed in a center of the Red Cross in Paris.

Renewal of the "Housing First" program

The head of government also confirmed the renewal of the "Housing first" program for the homeless, the terms of which are still under discussion.

This system launched in 2017, accompanied by an envelope of 44 million euros, has enabled some 400,000 homeless people to access housing, said Elisabeth Borne, who was accompanied by Olivier Klein, Minister Delegate for the City. and Housing, and by Isabelle Rome, Minister Delegate for Equality.

In addition to emergency accommodation, which is "a right", the Matignon tenant stressed the need to "streamline routes to find more stable lasting solutions" and wished to "develop places in family pensions, social residences, in rental intermediation, so that we keep this promise of "Housing first"".

The executive backtracks on emergency accommodation

The government has given up in the 2023 budget to cut places in emergency accommodation for homeless people, as it had planned so far, after protests from ten socialist and environmental mayors of large cities and aid associations to the poorly housed.

The executive, which had increased the number of places in emergency accommodation to 200,000 during the Covid-19 pandemic, planned to fund only 193,000 at the end of 2022 and 186,000 at the end of 2023. Finally, between 197,000 and 198,000 places will be opened in 2023.

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