The Prime minister is then party cruise with a team of the Samu social and distributed soup, water bottles or t-shirts.
surprise Visit of the Prime minister. Jean Castex was made Sunday night to the platform of the Samu social of Paris, expressing his “concern” for the homeless are particularly affected by the Covid-19, before taking a cruise.
“I do not come to see you to check a box but to tell you all my encouragement and my admiration,” said Jean Castex, on his arrival in Ivry-sur-Seine, pointing out that he himself had created “the Samu social de Toulon” when he was director of social affairs and health of the Var.
“I have a concern because you spoke of the health crisis, and there has been a prevalence of the epidemic in the public that you are experiencing”, he continued. “It is no secret that the health crisis is followed by an economic and social crisis. There also there will be public particularly vulnerable. These are topics that will continue to engage the government that I lead”, he assured.
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Lack of long-term solutions
He was welcomed by the president of the “Samu social” Alain Christnacht, who stressed that there had been “a lot of contaminated by the Covid” among its officers, including three doctors. There were three “clusters” in the accommodation centres and four deaths among the persons supported, he said.
Alain Christnacht was hailed as “a good solution” the government’s policy of so-called “housing first”, which is to try to go directly from the street to housing. But he pointed to “the lack of social housing to provide long-term solutions”. However, according to him, there are the financing, but there is a problem of land tenure, length of obtaining construction permits, cost of the land, and sometimes the political will of mayors…
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Jean Castex stresses that the use of hotels is not really “value for public money”. “We wonder if we can’t do better with so much money,” he continued. Alain Christnacht also laments that “the national home managed by the ministry of the Interior is under-sized, and returns of asylum-seekers on the 115”, the number of Samu social. About half of the people supported is foreign.
In total, the social workers of the 115 responding to about a thousand calls per day. “There are no more room. It should be recalled tomorrow,” said an officer to his interlocutor, in the presence of the Prime minister. It is only 21 hours.
Marauding for Jean Castex
They are sixty agents to the 115 on the 700 people in the social services, with teams that travel six departments of Ile-de-France and soon to be eight. It is with one of these teams as the head of the government, still masked and dressed in jeans and dark shirt, plaid, went out marauding at night in a white truck labeled “Samu social”.
With the driver, a nurse and a social worker, he distributed soup, water bottles or t-shirts and, in particular, comforted Fabien, a homeless man who has shown his COMIC strips of Asterix and Tintin.
He spoke at length with a young pregnant woman who had called for help before doing this ride in the truck to take her to the shelter Romain Rolland porte d’orléans. He took the opportunity to visit the centre that offers sixty beds in rooms, but the lack of masks, explained a nurse.
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In total, the Samu Social of Paris directs them to a park of 39 000 accommodation places, between the hotels, the centres that it owns, the other centres or even one of the insert slots. Budget: 280 million€, financed 85% by the State and 15% by the City of Paris.
