Nearly 2,600 people are homeless in the capital according to the first results of the Nuit de la solidarité 2022. A figure down from the count made during the March 2021 edition. New this year: around ten municipalities of the Grand Paris metropolis took part in the operation.
2,600 people are currently on the streets in the capital. This is what emerges from the first results of the fifth Solidarity Night in January 2022 and disclosed by the Paris City Hall this Tuesday, February 1 during a press conference. This figure is down 8% — which represents 229 people — compared to the previous edition which showed 2829 homeless people.
Of these 2,600 people identified this year, 1,893 were encountered in the streets of Paris. The other 707 were in “other sectors” : the slopes of the Périphérique, camps, parks, the Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes, train stations, metro stations, car parks, hospitals, etc. 78.5% of homeless people encountered are alone, 16% in groups of 5 or more, and 5.5% are couples or families.
On the night of January 20 to 21, 2022, these are thus prest of 2,000 volunteers — divided into teams — supervised by nearly 400 social action professionals who criss-crossed the streets of Paris to meet people on the street and in great difficulty to discuss with them.
CAs the Hôtel-de-Ville reminds us on its websitethe Night of Solidarity aims to “better understand the profiles and needs of people on the street in order to better adapt the emergency and social systems, intended for these populations in situations of multiple fragilities”.
This fifth Night of Solidarity was also special in many respects. It was not limited to Paris. It has, for the first time, been extended on an experimental basis to a metropolitan scale. About ten municipalities in the Greater Paris Metropolis took part: Aubervilliers, Bobigny, Bondy, Courbevoie, Gagny, Romainville, Rosny-sous-Bois, Rueil-Malmaison and Saint-Denis. 550 volunteers — volunteers as well as professionals — were mobilized in these territories. In these municipalities, the mobilized identified 487 homeless people, dont 240 people in a family camp on private land in Bobigny.
In addition, particular attention was paid this year to assessing the impact of the health crisis on precariousness and street situations in Paris.
Deputy Mayor of Paris in charge of inequalities and present at the press conference on Tuesday, Léa Filoche specifies that other municipalities “expressed their interest for next year in addition to the 9 pioneers [celles qui ont participé cette année, ndlr] : Saint-Ouen, Nanterre, Pantin, Montreuil, Charenton, Alfortville, Issy-les-Moulineaux“.
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