France to maintain 43,000 homeless beds for another 10 months
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21/05/2021 - 16:45 Homeless people sit on folding camp beds in a gymnasium set up by the French Red Cross in Strasbourg, eastern France, on 11 February, 2021. AFP - FREDERICK FLORIN 2 min France has promised to keep up 43,000 emergency accommodation beds – created in response to the Covid crisis – until the end of March next year. Advertising Read more
News of the 10-month extension came as a relief to NGOs, who feared thousands of homeless would be thrown back on to the streets as coronavirus restrictions were lifted.
More than 200,000 homeless people live in shelters and hotels across France.