Overview

• Around 250 migrants, including about 80 children, have slept each night on the Hôtel de Ville parvis for the past week due to a shortage of emergency accommodation.
• Utopia 56 maintains a nightly presence on the square to register families and distribute essentials to those turned away from reception centers.
• The City of Paris reports housing 1,063 people in converted municipal sites and gymnasiums year-round, while the Île-de-France prefecture insists its capacity exceeds 113,000 places.
• The 2025 finance law eliminated 6,500 asylum-seeker spots and NGOs estimate a nationwide deficit of at least 20,000 emergency places.
• Summer service slowdowns, volunteer holidays and the closure of gyms and schools for the season have intensified pressure on available shelters.