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Migrants Stage Sit-In at Paris City Hall as Emergency Shelter Runs Short

Families with children are staging nightly occupations to demand long-term housing after the 2025 budget cut stripped away thousands of emergency beds.

Rassemblement à l'appel de l'association Utopia 56 en soutien à plusieurs familles sans abri devant l'hôtel de ville de Paris, le 5 août 2025.
Rassemblement de sans abri devant l'Hôtel de ville de Paris, le 5 août 2025
Rassemblement de sans abri devant l'Hôtel de ville de Paris, le 5 août 2025
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Overview

  • Around 200 migrants and asylum seekers, including 80 children, occupied the steps of the Hôtel de Ville on August 5 as they queued each night for scarce emergency beds.
  • Despite the City of Paris reporting that 1,063 people are housed in converted municipal sites and gyms, more than 60 applicants—among them 17 children—went without overnight accommodation on a recent summer evening.
  • The Île-de-France prefecture maintains that its regional network offers over 113,000 places and compensates summer closures with new openings, including dedicated spaces for isolated women.
  • With schools and gymnasiums closed for the season, NGOs such as Utopia 56 and Médecins du Monde have shouldered nightly shelter operations for undocumented families.
  • Campaigners blame the 2025 finance law’s elimination of 6,500 asylum-seeker places for deepening a national emergency-bed deficit now estimated at around 20,000.