Twenty-two left-wing mayors, including Anne Hidalgo or Martine Aubry, challenge President Emmanuel Macron on homeless families, in an open letter published by The JDD. "We do not resign ourselves to the social distress that we see every day", write these elected officials, stressing that "this winter is particularly worrying because it combines several factors of weakening of people already in a situation of great vulnerability " .The letter is also signed by the mayors of Rennes Nathalie Appéré, Nantes Johanna...
Some 200 people have been occupying a disused school in the south of Paris for several hours, on the initiative of an association helping migrants and asylum seekers, said the mayor of the 15th arrondissement. These people - around 150 men and 40 women and children - "broke in in the middle of the night" in the school of Saints Angels, a private establishment which closed its doors last summer, according to mayor Philippe Goujon.The operation occurred on the initiative...
“I am proud to say that I live here. As a mother, I am no longer ashamed,” summarizes Aissatou, 31, in two sentences. For four years, she "visited all of Lyon" going "from hotel to hotel" almost every month, with her two children, under the age of three. "My life, and that of my family, has completely changed since I arrived here in April 2022," she says. “Here” is La Base, a former car park located in Villeurbanne, east of...
Rennes has long been spared from strong real estate speculation. Some years, she even contemplated the soaring prices at her Nantes neighbor, wondering if she would one day be concerned. The day seems to have arrived. Very attractive, the Breton metropolis has attracted as many Parisians as inhabitants of the Great West and has seen the price of its real estate skyrocket in recent years. In new buildings, the price per square meter on the free market in 2022 posted...
More and more invisible people. This Thursday evening, at the call of the Abbé Pierre foundation, around fifty associations will gather on the forecourt of Lille station to warn of the increase in the number of homeless people in the metropolis. A sad observation that the actors of solidarity fear to see worse in the coming months, in particular because of the economic situation.By the very admission of associations working with homeless people, it is particularly difficult to establish an...
refugees When asylum seekers are homeless for months Many asylum seekers in Belgium and the Netherlands have been living in miserable conditions for months. photo © Mia Bucher/dpa Between thin tent walls, surrounded by dirt, thousands of asylum seekers in Belgium have been living on the streets for months. In the Netherlands, too, many people seeking protection are eagerly awaiting accommodation. For almost three months, Faraidoon has been sleeping in a small blue tent next to a busy street in...
san francisco Police arrest gallerist who sprayed homeless woman with hose Homeless woman tried unsuccessfully to protest spraying outside San Francisco gallery (screenshot) © Twitter / @briochesf The disturbing images of a gallery owner spraying a homeless woman with a hose went around the world. Now the man has been arrested. An ugly scene erupted in San Francisco earlier this year. A woman sitting on the ground was sprayed with water by an angry man in freezing temperatures. Now the...
He was 51 years old. A homeless man was found dead on Tuesday morning at 253, avenue du Général-Patton, northeast of Rennes. Alerted, the firefighters intervened a little before 9 am. When they arrived on site, the victim was in cardiorespiratory arrest, lying on a bench. Despite attempts by firefighters and Smur to resuscitate him, the 50-year-old was declared dead by a doctor.Last year, four homeless people died on the streets in Rennes and 449 in France, according to the...
Severe storms have raged in the US state of California in recent weeks. At least two homeless people died. The cases once again bring the catastrophic situation of the homeless into the public eye. Devastating winter storms in California have killed at least two homeless people. Both deaths occurred in Sacramento, where winds hit nearly 60 mph over the weekend, leaving thousands of people without power at times. This is reported by several media, including the "LA Times". Rebekah Rohde,...
What will become of the incredible foam hobbit house that appeared last spring on the banks of the Touch, in Turnsheet, in the suburbs of Toulouse? After considering destroying it, the municipality indicates this Friday in a press release to be ready to "discuss the future of this installation", with David *, the 53-year-old homeless man who built it with falls. of materials found in garbage cans and sleeping there. This “castle”, rendered magical with brushstrokes, is particularly popular with...
