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  • Requests for RSA are multiplying in Ile-de-France and in particular in Paris with a 13% increase in the number of beneficiaries compared to last January.

  • Faced with "the social emergency", some elected officials are asking for more action.

  • Regarding homeless people, the Parisian right is asking that "winter be better anticipated".

A “particular” Paris Council under “exceptional conditions”.

Anne Hidalgo's first assistant, Emmanuel Grégoire, does not mince words.

While the Paris Council opens in part virtually this Tuesday for three days, the entire territory remains confined and the capital still has to face a strong circulation of the Covid-19 epidemic.

And in addition to the health crisis, there is more and more concretely the economic and social crisis in the capital.

Currently, requests for RSA are increasing in Ile-de-France and especially in Paris with a 13% increase in the number of beneficiaries compared to last January, the town hall said.

At the same time, precariousness is accelerating and food aid associations are more in demand.

So, many elected officials are trying to mobilize in the face of the "social emergency", notes Fatoumata Koné, president of the environmental group in Paris.

RSA for 18-25 year olds and "food check"

During this assembly, the elected ecologists will propose a wish in order to come to the aid of the sectors in difficulty as well as to the people "most vulnerable", by requesting in particular "the creation of an exceptional fund intended for the associations of solidarity".

They also advocate the immediate implementation of the RSA for 18-25 year olds and the proposal of the Citizen's Climate Convention for a “food check” to provide access to good quality products to the most vulnerable.

The Parisian communists also want the mayor of Paris to ask the government that access to the RSA be extended to at least 25 years and that a "real policy of combating poverty with the departments, their elected officials and associations be established" .

While the city's deficit will widen by a billion because of the health crisis to reach nearly 7 billion euros and at the same time when the budget orientation debate should agitate the assembly, the executive does not do not intend to give up.

Soon a ban on anti-homeless street furniture?

The majority say they want to continue their aid and strengthen food aid to the poorest.

With special attention to the homeless as winter approaches.

"We're not going to let people starve in the streets!"

During the first confinement, we distributed an average of 17,000 meals per day.

We even went up to 22,000.

We will also strengthen the marauding ”, recently explained to the

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, the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo.

For its part, the right, however, asks that "winter is better anticipated".

“We are alerting the municipal executive to the risks increased by the second wave for this particularly fragile public.

Feedback from the field, from associations and social services with whom we speak and work, share their concerns with us, ”the group said.

In addition, environmentalists intend to demand that "the ban on anti-homeless furniture be transcribed in the next PLU" and that all anti-homeless devices present in the city's public space be withdrawn.

The management of the migration crisis is no exception.

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Solidarity subsidies and the reception of refugees must also be voted on at this Paris Council.

"We are going to finance nine structures for the reception and integration of refugees," explains Ian Brossat, deputy mayor of Paris in charge of housing, emergency accommodation and refugee protection.

He specifies that the marauding of France Terre d'Asile will thus be fully funded, while recalling at the same time the recent opening of a humanitarian stop in the former town hall of the 1st district managed by the Salvation Army.

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