Sharp rise in housing vacancies in France
In 2023, 3.1 million homes were vacant in France, excluding Mayotte, representing 8.2% of the housing stock (Insee).
Housing
Paris: An encampment at the Place de la Bastille
Utopia 56, a migrant aid association, is setting up tents in the middle of Paris alongside thirty or so young people living on the streets to force the government to create a housing facility for young migrants.
Poor housing: the Fondation de l’Abbé Pierre blasts Macron
The 27ᵉ report of the Fondation Abbé Pierre draws up a critical assessment of the Macron quinquennium, far from the promises of a housing “supply shock” while the country has four million poorly housed and 300,000 homeless people.