Jean-Pierre, sans domicile / Jean-Pierre, homeless

Jean-Pierre, sans domicile / Jean-Pierre, homeless

France, Paris. Le 15 mai 2009. Campement des Enfants de Don Quichotte, avec une centaine de tentes le long du Quai des Tuileries, a Paris, pour denoncer le mal-logement. Jean-Pierre, sans domicile depuis 1971.

France, Paris, May 15th, 2009. The Enfants de Don Quichotte organisation set up a string of tents along the river (The Seine) for homeless people to use, and to draw attention to the need for long-term accommodation solutions for the city’s homeless people. Jean-Pierre, homeless since 1971.

Un toit / A roof

Un toit / A roof

France, Paris, le 15 mars 2009. Alors que la treve hivernale des expulsions s’interrompt lundi, plusieurs milliers de personnes ont manifeste dimanche pour réclamer l’arrêt de ces expulsions.
France, Paris, march 15, 2009. Protest against the end of France’s annual ‘treve hivernale’ (winter truce) between landlords and tenants, where you cannot be evicted from the end of October to mid-March. Each year housing campaigners protest.

La lutte continue / the struggle continues

La lutte continue / the struggle continues

Paris, France le 4 Janvier 2009 – Manifestation a l’appel de l’association Droit au logement (DAL) pour demander le relogement des 374 familles qui occupent chaque nuit le gymnase Saint Merri.
Paris, France, January, 4th, 2009. About 100 homeless people, including families with children, took over a Paris gymnasium (Saint Merri) demanding "asylum" from the mayor amid a cold snap after several people died sleeping outside. Today the activist group ‘Right to Housing’ organized a march.

Jackie is gone

Jackie is gone

Paris, 29/11/2008. Rassemblement en hommage à Jackie Silly, SDF mort rue de la Cerisaie dans le IVe arrondissement de Paris, en présence des associations d’aide aux sans abris.
France, Paris, November, 29, 2008. Tribute to Jackie Silly, a homeless who died friday in the street of La Cerisaie in Paris. Several homeless people have been found dead from the cold. This Thursday, the French government dropped an idea to force homeless people to take shelter during cold weather after protest from non-governmental activist groups.

Nuit de solidarité / Night of solidarity

Nuit de solidarité / Night of solidarity

© Whispepress. France, Paris, le 21 fevrier 2008. Une nuit dehors, tous ensemble… Plusieurs milliers de personnes ont passe la nuit de jeudi a vendredi place de la Republique pour participer a la ‘Nuit solidaire pour le logement’. La manifestation organisee par 28 associations de solidarite avec les sans-abri et les mal-loges. En présence de ! Augustin Legrand des Don Quichotte, Mathieu Kassovitz, Nolwenn Leroy.
France, Paris, February 21, 2008. The ‘night solidarity for housing’ brought together more than a thousand persons at the height of the evening. Approximately 300 remained spend the night, place of the Republic, to demonstrate their ‘solidarity with the SDF’. The event, inedit, was organized to the call of twenty-eight associations of solidarity with the homeless and badly housed.