Anne Hidalgo revealed in an interview at the JDD this Sunday, that city halls of Paris including the Town Hall will be open to the homeless during the winter.
PS Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, announces in an interview with the Journal du Dimanche that she will open town halls of the capital to the homeless this winter, including the City Hall, specifically dedicated to homeless women.
Last February, nearly 3,000 homeless people were counted in the streets of Paris during an unpublished census organized by the town hall, against a backdrop of figures between the government and the associations on the number of homeless people. shelter in the capital.
Put empty premises at your disposal
"So, there are nearly 3,000 emergency shelter spaces in the capital. I am committed to getting the city halfway. More than 800 have already been created in our buildings since February, 700 will be open by early 2019. The state is responsible for creating the other 1,500 , " says Anne Hidalgo.
To do this, the elected, which launches in passing a call for businesses to make their vacant premises available to the poor, intends to use vacant buildings and municipal sites in operation.
"Several borough boroughs - from left to right - have agreed to open places to stay on their premises [...] In the same vein, I wanted to create a night stop dedicated to women in the city. Paris City Hall " which will open in late November, she says.
A place of welcome for women
At the Hôtel de Ville, which houses the municipal institutions of Paris since the fourteenth century, the Prévôts and the Tapestries "will be transformed into a day-care - meals will be served and care provided - as well as a stopover. night, with beds, dormitories, sanitary blocks , " says the mayor.
About fifty homeless women - up to a hundred in a very cold situation - can be welcomed in this halt which will be "perennial" .
"I want this new place to be warm [...] They will be taken care of by women, because some are traumatized and flee any male presence" , underlines the mayor who also pleads for the reopening of a "true center of first reception Migrants in Paris.