“Thanks to the very rigorous work that we have done with my services, we will be able, in 2024, to approximately create 300 places” for emergency accommodation, declared the prefect of Rhône Fabienne Buccio in the program “ Dimanche en politics » on France 3. “Already, a certain number of places will be open”, notably “around sixty” for homeless women and children in Villeurbanne, she added.
“What is important is to create fluidity in this system: we do not enter emergency accommodation to settle there for years”, “we must create fluidity to create places and “welcome other people,” she continued. She recalled that the Rhône had 24,000 accommodation places, a figure which had “doubled in less than ten years”.
56 children without housing on the first day of school
At the beginning of January, several associations denounced the situation of homeless families, including 56 children, housed during the school holidays in a hotel in Lyon, and without accommodation on the first day of school despite the arrival of the cold.
Brigitte Macron, visiting Lyon last week for the launch of the yellow coins, considered it “unthinkable that a child would be on the street”. “We talked about it with the mayor of Lyon, we are going to carry out an operation to ensure that no child is on the street,” she declared.
The environmentalist mayor of Lyon Grégory Doucet asked in December to be received by President Emmanuel Macron, with five other environmentalist or socialist mayors, to denounce the crisis in the emergency accommodation system, which according to them leaves around 3,000 children at risk. Street.